DFI CMS101 Intel 10th Gen Core Thin Mini-ITX Motherboards with Triple LAN and 12 V DC Input

Panel PCs, slim kiosks and all-in-one HMIs leave little depth behind the display, and most run from a 12 V adapter or supply rather than an ATX unit. The DFI CMS101 series is designed for that space: a Thin Mini-ITX board of 170 x 170 mm that stands 16.3 mm on the top side and 4.4 mm underneath, runs from a single 12 V DC input and takes a socketed LGA1200 processor.

Each CMS101 board accepts 10th Gen Intel Core (Comet Lake) i9, i7, i5 and i3 processors, from four to ten cores, in 65 W E and 35 W TE versions. Two DDR4 2933 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 64 GB. Intel UHD Graphics decodes HEVC, VP9 and H.264 in hardware and drives two DP++ ports at the rear plus internal LVDS and eDP connectors for the panel, with three displays at once and 4K on the DP++ outputs.

CMS101-W480IB uses the Intel W480E chipset and adds 35 W Xeon W-1290TE, W-1270TE and W-1250TE processors to the Core range. CMS101-Q470IB uses the Q470E and adds two-core Pentium and Celeron options. Both have four rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and Intel vPro through the I219LM port. CMS101-H420IB uses the H420E with an Intel I219V GbE controller and no AMT or vPro, four rear USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, and M.2 M-key and B-key slots at PCIe x1.

Every board has three RJ45 ports: 2.5GbE on an Intel I225LM, GbE on the I219LM or I219V, and GbE on an Intel I210AT. Two RS-232/422/485 and two RS-232 ports sit on internal headers with 8-bit DIO, four internal USB 2.0 and two SATA 3.0 ports. An M.2 E-key (2230) takes Wi-Fi, an M.2 B-key (2242/3042/3052) takes a cellular module or SSD, and an M.2 M-key (2280) takes NVMe storage at PCIe Gen3 x4 on the W480E and Q470E builds. A PCIe x16 Gen3 slot supplies up to 75 W to an add-in card.

Power arrives at 12 V DC on a DC jack or a 4-pin connector. The boards operate from -5 to 65 °C and carry CE, FCC, UKCA, UL, CB and RoHS compliance, fTPM with an optional discrete TPM 2.0, a watchdog programmable from 1 to 255 seconds and Realtek audio. DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 and Linux, with thermal solutions for 35 W and 65 W processors. For a 15 to 36 V supply, the CMS103 series is the same board with a wide-range input.