DFI CMS632-Q470ECRM Intel Comet Lake Core ATX Embedded Motherboard with Q470E Chipset, Dual LAN and Seven Expansion Slots

Signal capture and production test systems often carry several network or I/O cards and one GPU, and they run out of x4 slots first. The CMS632-Q470ECRM is the Q470E build of the CMS632 series, an ATX embedded motherboard with four PCIe x4 slots, two PCIe x16 slots and an LGA1200 socket for 10th Gen Intel Core (Comet Lake).

The socket takes 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 the Celeron G5900E and G5900TE for lighter control workloads, 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 three independent displays with hardware H.265 and VP9 decode, and Intel AMT supports remote management on Core i5, i7 and i9.

Two PCIe x16 Gen3 slots share x16 or x8/x8 signal, with four PCIe x4 Gen3 slots and a PCI slot. A jumper sets two of the x4 slots or the two M.2 M-key sockets, so a build can run six cards, or four cards and two PCIe x4 NVMe SSDs, alongside four SATA 3.0 ports with RAID. Two GbE ports on Intel I219LM and I210AT controllers sit on the rear panel with eight USB Type-A ports and an RS-232/422/485 DB-9, while headers carry five more COM ports, 16-bit digital I/O and five further USB ports.

The CMS632-Q470ECRM runs from a standard ATX supply over 24-pin and 8-pin connectors across -5 to 65 °C, and carries CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance, optional TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer. For Xeon W-1200E processors and ECC memory, choose the CMS632-W480ECRM.