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The X99 SOC Champion uses the standard Intel NIC from the X99 chipset. That said in my testing I did run into a few issues. Given that normally the built in NIC in the X99 is rock solid, our sample may have had issues. The main issue I had was slow performance when using out Trendnet switch. I have seen this in the past with some low end Realtek NICs, swapping our office switch from the Trendnet to a Dell improved the numbers but as you can see below the performance was still not up to the standard set by the other X99 boards.