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First post, by nekurahoka

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Does this exist? I got a bug this morning to fish around for cards that do full TCP offloading and in researching this I found that there were companies making cards that do this as early as 1999. My question is, did anyone produce a server style card with full offloading in a regular PCI configuration or are they all PCI-X or PCI-e?

Searching the web, I've found a listing or two that show images of regular PCI cards titled as 1GB ethernet featuring full tcp offload engines, but upon deeper inspection it seems these listings had incorrect pictures posted of the card.

I'd like to put one of these in my DirectX 9 machine. I understand this isn't a practical exercise given the amount of data that would be handled by the system. I'm one of those nuts that bought the Killer 2100 NIC and love it even though I usually top out at about 15% of its total available processor usage. I just think this functionality would be fun to have.

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