DFI CS101-Q370 Intel Coffee Lake Core Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard with Q370 Chipset, Dual LAN and 12 V DC Input

Digital signage, retail terminals and meeting-room panels often end up in the hundreds, spread across buildings and looked after by an IT team working remotely. The CS101-Q370 is the Q370 build in the DFI CS101 series of Thin Mini-ITX motherboards, and it pairs a slim 12 V board with Intel vPro, triple display and faster storage for that kind of fleet.

The LGA1151 socket accepts 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors, from four to eight cores, up to the Core i7-9700K at 95 W, along with the Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900. Intel vPro and AMT run through the I219LM port when a Core i5 or i7 is fitted. Two DDR4 2400/2666 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 32 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives HDMI, two DP++ ports and an internal LVDS or eDP panel, three at once.

A second GbE port runs on an Intel I210AT. Four USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports sit at the rear, with four USB 2.0 ports and four serial ports on internal headers: two RS-232/422/485 and two RS-232, plus 8-bit DIO. The M.2 M-key 2280 slot takes an NVMe drive at PCIe x4 or a SATA drive, a Mini PCIe socket takes mSATA, and RAID 0, 1 and 5 can mirror drives. An M.2 E-key slot takes Wi-Fi and a PCIe x4 Gen3 slot takes a riser.

The CS101-Q370 runs from 12 V DC on a barrel or 4-pin connector and operates from 0 to 60 °C, with a TPM 2.0 and CE, FCC, UL, UKCA and RoHS compliance. CS101-C246 keeps the same I/O and adds ECC memory, and CS101-H310 suits single-application designs that need neither vPro nor triple display.