CounterStrike is the most-played FPS in the world, still ranked as the game with the most hours played in any genre, on any platform. The combination of easy-to-learn gameplay and furious action counts on network performance that pushes the technology envelope. No matter whose side you’re on, everybody wants to fight lag. Killer NIC bypasses Windows networking to give your game data an accelerated path to the game server, giving you the competitive edge you can’t get with other hardware.

How Can Killer NIC Improve Your CounterStrike: Source Experience

1. Aiming
We’ve all seen it – looking through the sniper scope at three CT’s bouncing down the street while your CPU struggles to keep up with them. One instant they’re in your sights, the next they’re gone, around the corner. The fact is, your rig is built to take care of the game and the graphics – it’s still hobbled by waiting for Windows to get around to giving it network data.
The Killer NIC offloads your network traffic from the CPU and prioritizes your game traffic to let the CPU and graphics card do their jobs. You get smoother animation and a smoother framerate, allowing you to take the care to make the perfect shot, every time.

2. Shooting
Pulled the trigger a little too late? Killer NIC gives you a double advantage when it really counts. You get network updates faster than before, so that you can see the bad guy a split-second before he sees you. Then, when you pull the trigger, your trigger pull gets to the server before his does because the Killer NIC has bypassed Windows networking and given that trigger pull the utmost priority. And in less time than it takes to talk about it, the other guy’s dead on the ground, wondering what happened.

3. Heavy Combat
Ten seconds left in the round and the Tangos rush in with smoke, frags and blazing AKs. You’ve got nerves of steel but your CPU can only do so much, and it has to wait for the network before it can show you the bad guys. Killer NIC offloads and accelerates your network traffic so that when the snoke, screams, frags and rounds are all coming in the room, your CPU has the time to deal with them, while you aim with silky-smooth precision, regardless of frag spam.