EVGA 122-CK-NF68-XX manual Performance, First Packet, Networking Control Panel Categories

Installing and Configuring the EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard

Performance

The Performance option on the Networking Control Panel Categories screen provides the means to configure FirstPacket settings and to set TCP/IP acceleration configuration.

Figure 28. Networking Control Panel Categories

First Packet

NVIDIA FirstPacket offers a new way to manage the traffic on your personal computer, allowing you to more effectively manage and improve the performance of networked games and other applications that are sensitive to network delay (latency), such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP).

FirstPacket creates an additional transmit queue in the network driver so that network applications can share a limited resource. Based on user preference, FirstPacket can expedite transmission for user-approved network applications.

For example, when FirstPacket is enabled:

‰A game that was previously unplayable can be completely usable

‰VoIP connections will not be dropped due to the network traffic on a local computer.

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