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So you want to upgrade your gaming PC with a new graphics card but you have also heard some good things about Bigfoot Networks' line of gaming oriented network cards too. Well, how about if you got both on one card? Our sister site Engadget is reporting from Computex that Bigfoot Networks is going to do just that with a currently unnamed product that combines its recently launched Killer 2100 gaming network card with an ATI Radeon 5000 series-based graphics card from a company called TLU.

The company is showing off a prototype of the product which it says will cost less than if you had to buy each card separately. The final product should be released later this year. Engadget's story also hints that Bigfoot would like to see its network card technology in gaming laptops and in motherboards in the future. It's also looking to bring its low ping network tech to WiFi sometime in 2011.

Bigfoot Networks has been developing and releasing their Killer series of PC network cards that are supposed to be made especially for PC gaming. Today the company unveiled their latest entry, the Killer 2100. They even have brought out (fictional) musician Rod Trotter to check out the unboxing. You can check out the video after the jump.

The company claims the new Killer 2100 card handles online PC gaming network traffic at up to 10 times the speed of the average NIC. In addition to having a dedicated Network Proccessing Unit, the Killer 2100 can detect traffic that's specifically for games and then optimizes the bandwidth beyond the rest of your PC's bandwidth. It can also let you directly control where your network bandwidth is being used. The card will go on sale "in coming weeks" for $129.