If you haven't bought a card yet, you might look at genuine Intel i226 cards, I think there is a second revision that you might want to look into. That said, HP included a single port i225 card in all of the Z2 computers I just put into service, since I don't have any multigig switches, I just kind of ignored them for now but thought it was odd to ship i225 cards when i226 was the current version. These have i7-14xxx processors and made couple months ago, so not old stock.The only thing I don't like about the Prodesk is the lack of PCIe slots, at least in the g6 that I have (with 10th gen processors). Oddly enough, the Z2 also have a lack of PCIe compared to the Z240 that they replaced, they are basically a Prodesk on steroids. Not sure why they cost so much more. If the choice is present, for the same money I would choose an EliteDesk 800 over the Prodesk, assuming they still have a decent number of PCIe like our old gen1 did. Those gen 1 Elitedesk 800 ran for around 7 years until they were just too slow for the application we needed to run. Good little computers, only had a single power supply fail in those years and they were on 24/7. The gen 2 not so good, lots of fan and PS issues, the gen3 have been decent so far. Also I had to swap them as we knew that Win11 was approaching and things needed to be newer and compatible.
