DFI ARS630-W880 Intel Core Ultra 200S LGA 1851 Industrial ATX Motherboard with W880 Chipset, Quad 2.5GbE and PCIe Gen5 x16

A robot cell or a multi-camera assembly station tends to run several networks at once: cameras on one segment, robots and drives on another, the machine controller and the plant uplink on their own. The ARS630-W880 is the W880 build in the DFI ARS630 series of ATX industrial motherboards, and it gives each of those its own 2.5GbE port while keeping seven slots free for cards.

The LGA 1851 socket takes Arrow Lake-S processors from the 10-core Core Ultra 5 225T at 35 W to the 24-core Core Ultra 9 285 at 65 W, and the board supports processors up to 125 W TDP. Four DDR5 DIMMs in dual channel hold up to 256 GB at up to 5600 MHz with ECC support, which suits long-running cell controllers and data logging. Integrated Intel graphics drives VGA, two DP++ and HDMI 2.0a outputs for up to four displays.

Four 2.5GbE ports run on Intel I226 controllers. Two PCIe x16 Gen5 slots run as x16 or x8/x8 for a GPU and a frame grabber, three PCIe x4 Gen4 slots and a PCIe x4 slot wired at x1 take motion and I/O cards, and a PCI slot keeps an older card in service. Storage is an M.2 NVMe slot at PCIe Gen5 x4, a second at Gen4 x4 or SATA and four SATA 3.0 ports with RAID. Six COM ports, 4-in/8-out DIO and eight rear USB 3.2 ports complete the I/O.

The ARS630-W880 runs from an ATX supply on 24-pin and 8-pin connectors and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with CE, FCC, UKCA, RoHS, LVD and KC compliance. ARS630-Q870 keeps the seven slots with two 2.5GbE ports and non-ECC memory, for systems where the cards matter more than the ports.