ASRock Industrial iEPF-9042S-EW4 Intel Bartlett Lake-S H610 Expandable GPU Computer with PCIe x16, PoE and Ignition Control

Some edge AI installs need one discrete GPU and a full set of industrial I/O rather than several cards. The ASRock Industrial iEPF-9042S-EW4 is an expandable GPU computer on the Intel H610 chipset for Core (Series 2) Bartlett Lake-S processors, with a single PCIe Gen5 x16 slot, four 2.5GbE ports and ignition control. It is a newer counterpart to the live iEPF-9022S-EY4.

The iEPF-9042S-EW4 takes LGA 1700 processors on ASRock’s support list, from the Core 3 201E to the Core 7 251E. Two DDR5 5600 SO-DIMM sockets take up to 96 GB. Intel UHD Graphics drives DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.0b at up to 4K at 60 Hz, plus VGA. TPM 2.0 is on board, and Windows 11 and Linux are supported.

The PCIe Gen5 x16 slot takes one graphics card; the default power cable supports a card up to 180 W, or up to 600 W with the optional VGA module. Networking is four Intel I226-IT 2.5GbE ports, with 802.3at PoE on two of them. USB covers four USB 3.2 Gen 2 and two USB 2.0 ports. Six COM ports and 8DI/8DO cover serial and digital devices, with optional isolation on COM1 and COM2. Storage is one M.2 Key M NVMe slot on PCIe Gen3 x1, four SATA3 ports and an optional CFast socket. An M.2 Key E slot and two M.2 Key B slots with two Nano SIMs take optional Wi-Fi, 4G or 5G modules.

Power is 9 to 36 V DC with 13-mode ignition control, a remote on/off switch and surge, over-voltage, under-voltage, over-current and reverse protection. The iEPF-9042S-EW4 is rated from -40 °C to 55 °C for 46 W to 65 W CPUs, with its internal fan and no add-on card fitted. It is tested to 50 G shock and 5 Grms vibration and carries CE and FCC Class A marks. We supply it configured and tested, with the processor, memory, storage, GPU card and OS image fitted. The iEPF-9040S-EW4 moves to the R680E chipset with four PCIe slots, and the iEP-9042E keeps similar I/O in a fanless unit.