On Jan 30, 2008 4:05 PM, David Mathog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gilad Shainer wrote: > > > > >> IB for gaming? I have one ratio: 1e-1/3e-6. that's human > > >> reaction time versus IB latency. > > >> > > > > > > Oh yes... I guess you did not play for a long time. Did you? Talk > > > with someone who suffer from lagging and you will get the story, even > > > When he has a great video card. It's the network and the CPU overhead > > > that are the cause of this issue > > > > Er... ah ... yeah. Milliseconds is typical in FPS games. hundreds of > > ms are bad. Hundreds of microseconds aren't ... ok, depends upon your > > FPS, I am sure the military folks have *really* fun ones which require > > that sort of latency. > > Many FPS games are still keyboard driven, and the scan rate on the > keyboard is likely only on the order of 10Hz. Gaming mice scan position > a lot faster though, last I looked they were closing in on 10000 data > points per second. Even so, human reaction time is now, and probably > will be forever, at the .1 second level, so even if that gaming mouse > could record 1000 button presses a second, no gamer is ever going to be > able to push that button at anywhere near that rate. > > IB would be massive overkill for gaming, 100 (or even 10) baseT should > work just fine unless the network is hideously congested, in which case > the game is probably going to become unplayable due to dropped UDP packets.
Yes, but put "Gaming" in front of any device name and it'll sell. Gaming mice are a good example. This is another http://www.killernic.com/ The $300 NIC. -jeff > > Regards, > > David Mathog > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jeff Blasius / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (203)432-9940 51 Prospect Rm. 011 High Performance Computing (HPC) UNIX Systems Administrator, Linux Systems Design & Support (LSDS) Yale University Information Technology Services (ITS) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
