Upgrade Asus G50VT-X1 Wireless Card to Killer NIC

Hey, i do alot of online gaming (WoW, COD4, Guild Wars and the like) but am often forced to game on a wireless connection, which have terrible speeds and my latency is usually 800ms or more. As a solution, I wanted to upgrade either to the Killer NIC K1 or M1 (preferably the K1 because it's cheaper.) Is there any way I can do this or ask a professional for help? Thanks.

 

I think the NIC cards were only made for desktop applications. You cant physically put one into your laptop because you do not have a desktop pci port in your system.
I do not think the NIC did very much anyways. It looked great on paper, but I dont think it yielded any kind of performance increase.

Why cant you run a long Ethernet cable, so you do not have to use wireless?

K-TRON

 

First of all, those NICs are for desktop computer and desktop computers ONLY. There is no way you could use that on your G50VT-X1, even with "professional help."
Second of all, neither of those cards are wireless. How would a wired NIC assist you?
Third of all, those cards are huge scams - they will not really help since the bottleneck on latency is the internet itself, NOT your NIC. Any standard 10/100 or 10/100/1000 NIC, even those built into laptops, will yield almost identical performance.

 

Well, that solves my problem. I have a 100mbps connection with a modem, which yields good latencies (around 170ms.) I guess i'll be forced to get a different wireless card upgrade.

 

what wireless card do you have in your laptop?

The Intel 3945, 4965 are very good wireless cards. You may want to consider one of them.

K-TRON