DFI CS181-H310NB Intel 8th and 9th Gen Core Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboard with H310 Chipset and Quad LAN

A vision system reading four cameras, or a control desk driving several screens, often needs a discrete GPU and more network ports than a Mini-ITX board usually offers, without the depth of a full-height graphics card. The CS181-H310NB is the one build in the DFI CS181 series of industrial Mini-ITX motherboards, and it puts an MXM slot and four GbE ports on a 170 x 170 mm board.

The LGA1151 socket takes 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors in standard, T, E and TE versions, from four to eight cores, as well as the Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900, at up to 65 W. The Intel H310 chipset has no Intel AMT or vPro. Two DDR4 2400/2666 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 64 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives an internal eDP panel and a DP++ port at the rear, decoding HEVC and VP9 in hardware.

The MXM slot takes Type-A, B and B+ modules on PCIe x16, and a fitted module adds four DisplayPort outputs at the rear; DFI lists NVIDIA Quadro P2000 and Quadro RTX 3000 modules as options. Four GbE ports, one on an Intel I219V and three on I210AT controllers, give each camera its own link. Four USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports sit at the rear, with two USB 2.0 ports, two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO on internal headers. Storage runs to two SATA 3.0 ports, an M.2 M-key 2280 slot and an M.2 B-key SATA slot, and an M.2 E-key takes Wi-Fi.

The CS181-H310NB runs from 19 V DC on a barrel connector and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with a TPM 2.0, a watchdog and CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 64-bit for this board.