Bigfoot Networks announced today that it will be making an appearance during BlizzCon 2007 when it happens at the Anaheim Convention Center in California between August 3 and 4.

The good thing about this is that the company will be giving away Killer NIC network cards for fans who will be passing its booth. We guess you're quite familiar now what's the deal with Killer NIC.

If you're not, then we're pretty sure that you have two major problems - namely lag and latency. Bigfoot created Killer NIC with Blizzard's World of Warcraft in mind, implementing Lag and Latency Reduction Technology for a better gaming experience.

"World of Warcraft and the Killer NIC make a great combo. It is the huge demand for the Killer NIC by WoW gamers that brings us to BlizzCon. The fact Blizzard only allows ten companies to be sponsors of BlizzCon shows how much they believe in the power of the Killer NIC and what it delivers for games like World of Warcraft," commented Bigfoot Networks CEO Harlan Beverly.

The above mentioned companies include Intel, nVIDIA, AT&T, Dell, Logitech, Creative, and Cisco among others. Bigfoot's booth number at Blizzcon is S101.

It's kinda unfair that Blizzard's World of Warcraft is so ***d**n popular, that WidowPC will actually piece together for you a specially-crafted WoW-online gaming PC so you can enjoy in full glory the phenomenon that is WoW. Sigh, some of us here wonder if they plan on extending this kind of special treatment to other games that we like, like EVE Online, or Command and Conquer 3, or Microsoft Flight Simulator.

This WoW rig comes equipped with AMD's Athlon 64 FX OR Dual Core (your pick) on an A8N-E motherboard. Toss in nVidia's GeForce 7600, 11 bays for 5.25" hard drives, up to 4GB of DDR RAM, the Killer NIC ethernet card, and high-def sound that blind people can play to (oky, not in WoW, but WidowPC has an article about the blind playing shooters...).

And you get to pick between two lovely PC casings (the picture we've included), the TU-155 and RX-9, both of which look nothing like an Orc, but who's complaining? With that kind of power under the hood, grinding through Azeroth should be no problem. If you can pony up upwards of US$ 1,495 for the basic package, that is.

But tell you what, WidowPC. Throw in the option to upgrade to one of those sweet G80 mothers, and that's a deal that we'd take (even if you throw in the price differential for the G80). With that kind of power, we can then use the PC for more than World of Warcraft - like Crysis, FSX, C&C3, The Sims...

One of the most prevalent problems plaguing online games is lag. Sometimes it gets so bad that we just have to stop playing, and when it gets even worse we can sometimes swear to ourselves that we won't ever play again (although more often than not we get right back on the MMO wagon).

This is the problem that Bigfoot Networks hopes to remedy with their new product, the Killer Network Interface Card which we already featured a few months back. To shed more light on what the Killer NIC can do, in an interview with MMORPG.com's Jon Wood, the guys from Bigfoot Networks revealed that their Killer NIC helps out in two ways: ping and frames per second. Pings get lower, while the latter gets higher.

The Killer NIC is also more versatile than the average network card. Users can actually write their own programs on the card. Programs like TeamSpeak, Ventrillo and even Bit Torrent that usually eat away at a game’s performance can be compiled to run through this new card. It even comes with an external USB 2.0 port so that you can plug in an external hard drive.

The card is especially useful when you're in a situation where there are lots of monsters and players on-screen at the same time, say during a raid. the guys from Bigfoot Networks say that this is where the Killer NIC shines most, reducing the lag that is common in these situations.

How does it perform when used in a high raid content MMO, say World of Warcraft? According to Bigfoot, as well as outside reviewers, the game sees about 9 milliseconds of improvement in latency and a 41% improvement in frames per second. Man, if this card really lives up to the hype, we're getting ours right away. We suggest you guys give it a try too.

If you have better ping times and more frames-per-second while playing games online, then you are probably using Bigfoot Networks' Killer NIC (Network Interface Card). The core component of Killer is LLR Technology which is a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) offload engine designed specifically to handle game network traffic. It offloads the network processing tasks of games away from the CPU and onto the NPU, resulting to a smoother gaming experience.

But, on your rare breaks from gaming haven't you ever wonder how it works? If you have, then satisfy your curiosity by checking out the Killer White Paper which explains specifically how LLRTM Technology works.

"Ever since Bigfoot announced LLR Technology, and now the Killer NIC, we have been swamped with questions from gamers and the media who want to know exactly how the Killer does what it does," says Harlan 'Tytus' Beverly, CEO of Bigfoot Networks. "With the introduction of the Killer and our newly published white paper, we are finally able to explain how our patent pending technology dramatically improves online gaming performance."

Download: [Killer White Paper PDF file]
                  [Killer White Paper PDF file (High Resolution)]

Bigfoot Networks Inc. has introduced its flagship gaming product - the Killer NIC (Network Interface Card). Powered by LLR Technology, the Killer NIC features a 400Mhz Network Processing Unit (NPU) and 64MB of dedicated DDR. These result in better ping times and more Frames Per Second (FPS) while playing games online.

Killer utilizes LLR Technology to offload the network processing tasks of games away from the CPU and onto the NPU, thus speeding up and improving the online gaming experience. Unlike other hardware products in the market today, Killer does not require game integration. It focuses on making the game run fast and smooth during the most intense action. To gamers, that can be the difference between winning and losing. The interface card is designed specifically for online video games. In addition, the LLR Technology offers developers the chance to write their own applications and utilities to run on the NPU.

The Killer NIC will go on sale starting August 16th.