Intel I226-V 2.5GbE NIC

The Intel I226-V is the 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet controller standardised on Intel 600-series (Z690/B660), 700-series (Z790/B760), and 800-series (Z890) platform motherboards. It is the production-revised successor to the I225-V, addressing reliability errata present in I225-V B0/B1 steppings that caused intermittent disconnects at 2.5G link speed. The I226-V is valued for its consistent low-latency performance and deterministic packet scheduling critical for competitive gaming (sub-1 ms jitter) and NAS file transfer workloads.