Rivet Networks Announces Killer E2500 Ethernet Adapter, Bound For GIGABYTE & MSI Motherboards

The folks at Rivet Networks have just announced their latest creation: the Killer E2500 Ethernet chip. Just as we’d expect, it’s packed to the gills with new gaming features, continuing to build on a legacy that’s now spanned an entire decade.

The Killer E2500 has four major features worth calling out, with one of the biggest being its Control Center. For this generation, the application’s interface has been overhauled (unfortunately, there are no accompanying images) to give the user not just more control, but more information, as well. The biggest use of this software is to manage the bandwidth your applications use on a granular level – though those who don’t want to put that much time into fine-tuning can enjoy another feature: Advanced Stream Detect 2.0.

The overarching goal of Killer’s networking products is making sure that your important content is given priority, and that’s at the heart of Advanced Stream Detect 2.0. The software can automatically prioritize traffic for your online games, video, and even websites, for smooth gameplay or playback.

Tying into that is Lag and Latency Reduction, a technology that Rivet says can improve performance for common tasks by up to 25%, as it’s somehow able to push packets to and from their destinations quicker. In multi-tasking scenarios, Rivet says that overall performance could increase 10x, although we’re not quite sure how noticeable that’d appear to the user (that’s a tough thing to benchmark).

Last, but not least, Rivet also packs its DoubleShot Pro technology into the Killer E2500, a feature also available on the E2400. What it does is work in conjunction with a Killer Wi-Fi adapter to assign different workloads to either one. In most cases, online games are going to be glued to the wired Ethernet connection, but everything else could be relegated to the wireless connection. The ultimate goal here is to keep the Ethernet connection free and clear of all unwanted signal noise. Again, this feature would be difficult to quantify, but those who demand the cleanest possible connections for their games could want to take advantage of it.

Rivet says that its Killer E2500 is available in motherboards from both GIGABYTE and MSI, although no specific models are mentioned. As of the time of writing, we’ve been unable to find motherboards for sale that include the chip, so we’d expect that we’ll ultimately see the E2500 litter the market with the next generational motherboard roll out, such as with boards built around Intel’s Kaby Lake.