ASRock Industrial IMB-X1712 ATX Motherboard for Intel Core Series 2 and 14th, 13th and 12th Gen LGA1700 with W680, ECC and Triple 2.5GbE

Servers and machine controllers that run around the clock need memory that corrects its own errors, room for several drives and, often, a slot for an older PCI card. The IMB-X1712 is ASRock Industrial’s ATX motherboard for that brief: an LGA1700 board on the Intel W680 chipset for 12th Gen Intel Core processors, with ECC memory support.

The socket takes 12th Gen (Alder Lake-S) Intel Core processors up to 125 W on the Intel W680 chipset. The four ECC or non-ECC DDR4-3200 Long-DIMM slots run in dual channel for up to 128 GB, 32 GB per module. Intel UHD Graphics drives HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a at up to 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz and VGA at up to 1920 x 1200, with up to three displays at once.

Three Intel I225LM controllers give three 2.5GbE ports, with AMT and vPro on LAN1. The rear carries five USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C and two RS-232/422/485 ports, and internal headers add two USB 3.2 Gen 1, four USB 2.0, four RS-232, a parallel port shared with 8-in/8-out GPIO, PS/2 and a Thunderbolt header. Expansion covers two PCIe Gen 4 slots (one x16, or x8/x8 across both), two PCIe x4 (Gen 4), one PCIe x4 (Gen 3) and two PCI slots, with an M.2 E key for Wi-Fi and an M.2 B key with SIM for 4G or 5G. Storage is an M.2 M key up to 25110 on PCIe Gen4 x4 and eight SATA 6Gb/s ports with Intel VMD RAID 0/1/5/10. The IMB-1712 is the Q670 version with two LAN ports and four SATA ports, and the IMB-X1714 moves to 13th Gen support, DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.

Power comes from an ATX 24+8-pin supply with AT and ATX modes. The board operates from 0 to 60 °C and stores from -40 to 85 °C at 5 to 90% humidity, with a TPM 2.0 chip, a 256-segment watchdog timer and Realtek ALC897 audio with line-in, line-out and mic-in. It measures 305 x 244 mm on the ATX footprint.