Comet Lake-S will have a more bumpy landing than previously anticipated. If you have a hard time against AMD and Zen 2, errors like the one we are going to see below can be very expensive due to the bad reputation they usually bring, what happened?
Intel i225 Foxville network cards have a design flaw
Typically a component like a network card is so delicate and needs to be so precise that it passes very high performance and quality tests to ensure everything is working properly. In the case of Intel, its Ethernet cards are so good that they have ended up weighing down the mid and upper-middle range market for other manufacturers, since many are included in the series motherboards.
Although the range i225 Foxville Intel is already in circulation on certain motherboards (especially server), the blue giant will make them available to most users thanks to the new platform for Comet Lake-S under the Z490 chipset.
The problem is that the same company has had to issue an internal statement as an official notice for this 2.5 Gbps network card to its OEM PC and motherboard partners. Although it is not a security problem as such, it does exist in terms of the performance of these in all the systems that implement them and in configuration with certain types of routers.
Packet loss due to IPG error