DFI CMS631-Q470ECRM Intel 10th Gen Core ATX Industrial Motherboard with Q470E Chipset, Dual LAN and Seven Expansion Slots

Laboratory and production test systems often combine several PCI instrument cards with large data sets that need redundant storage. The CMS631-Q470ECRM is the Q470E build of the CMS631 series, an ATX industrial motherboard with five PCI slots, six SATA ports with RAID and up to 128 GB of DDR4.

Its LGA1200 socket takes 10th Gen Intel Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 processors, from the four-core i3-10100TE at 35 W to the 10-core i9-10900E at 65 W, plus the Pentium G6400E and Celeron G5900E and G5900TE, with DFI rating the socket up to 125 W. Four DDR4 2933 MHz DIMM slots take up to 128 GB of non-ECC memory. Intel UHD Graphics drives VGA, DP++ and HDMI as three independent displays, and Intel AMT supports remote management on Core i5, i7 and i9.

Storage covers six SATA 3.0 ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and an M.2 M-key socket for PCIe x4 Gen3 NVMe or SATA SSDs, with a second M-key and an E-key socket also listed for this build. Expansion is a PCIe x16 Gen3 slot, a PCIe x4 Gen3 slot and five PCI slots. The rear panel has two USB 3.2 Gen 2, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, two GbE ports on Intel I210AT and I219LM controllers and an RS-232/422/485 DB-9, and headers add five more COM ports, 16-bit digital I/O and seven further USB ports.

The CMS631-Q470ECRM runs from a standard ATX supply over 24-pin and 8-pin connectors across -5 to 65 °C, with optional TPM 2.0, a watchdog timer and CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance. Where 64 GB, two displays and four SATA ports are enough, the CMS631-H420EC keeps the five PCI slots on the H420E chipset.