ASRock Industrial IMB-1317 Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Q870 Micro-ATX Embedded Motherboard with 2.5GbE, Dual Thunderbolt 4 and 6x COM

Kiosks, signage players, medical carts and test equipment often drive a built-in panel and talk to serial devices, and they usually need a board that can be managed remotely. The ASRock Industrial IMB-1317 is a Q870 Micro-ATX embedded motherboard for Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, with an LVDS or eDP connector and six COM ports on the board.

The LGA1851 socket takes Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake-S) processors up to 125 W, with power limits up to 252 W supported. Four DDR5 Long-DIMM slots hold up to 256 GB of memory, at 6400 MHz with CU-DIMMs or 5600 MHz with U-DIMMs. Intel Xe graphics drive up to four displays, and the Q870 chipset brings Intel vPro with AMT for remote management. Windows 11 and Linux are supported.

Networking is an Intel I219LM Gigabit port with vPro and an Intel I226V 2.5GbE port. Expansion is two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, as one x16 or two x8, and two PCIe 4.0 x4 slots. Storage runs from two M.2 M key sockets (PCIe 5.0 x4 and PCIe 4.0 x4) and eight SATA 6Gb/s ports, with Intel VMD RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and an M.2 E key socket takes an optional wireless module. Displays come from HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, a shared LVDS or eDP connector and two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one at the rear and one vertical Type-C inside. USB covers seven USB 3.2 Gen 2 at the rear, an internal Gen 2 Type-A and two Gen 1, and six COM ports sit alongside GPIO.

The IMB-1317 is rated from -20 °C to 70 °C, runs from an ATX supply in AT or ATX mode, and carries a TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer. We supply it with the processor, memory and storage fitted and tested, on its own or built into a complete system. The IMB-X1317 adds the W880 chipset with ECC memory and four LAN ports, and the IMB-1715 brings the Q870 to ATX with more slots.