DFI CS170-Q370DB Intel Coffee Lake Core Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboard with Q370 Chipset and Dual LAN

A vision system that saves every image it rejects, or a test cell that writes large result files, needs fast local storage and a way for the controls team to reach it without walking to the line. The CS170-Q370DB is the Q370 build in the DFI CS170 series of industrial Mini-ITX motherboards, and it adds NVMe at PCIe x4, RAID and Intel vPro to the PCIe x16 design.

The LGA1151 socket accepts 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core i9, i7, i5 and i3 processors, from four to eight cores, up to the Core i9-9900K at 95 W, plus the Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900. Intel vPro and AMT run through the I219LM port with a Core i5 or i7. Two non-ECC DDR4 2400/2666 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 32 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives LVDS, VGA and two DP++ ports, three at once.

The second GbE port runs on an Intel I210AT, which suits a camera network kept apart from the plant uplink. Two USB 3.1 Gen 2 and four Gen 1 ports sit at the rear with two RS-232 DB9 ports, and two USB 2.0 ports and 8-bit DIO sit inside. The M.2 M-key 2280 slot runs NVMe at PCIe x4 Gen3 or SATA, two SATA 3.0 ports and RAID 0, 1 and 5 cover capacity and mirroring, and the PCIe x16 Gen3 slot supplies up to 75 W.

The CS170-Q370DB runs from a 24-pin and 4-pin ATX supply and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with a TPM 2.0 and CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. CS170-C246DB adds Xeon E and ECC memory to the same I/O, and CS170-H310DB suits standalone systems that need neither vPro nor RAID.