DFI CS650-C246CRM Intel 8th and 9th Gen Core Industrial ATX Motherboard with C246 Chipset, Dual LAN and Seven Expansion Slots

A vision server mounted in a machine cabinet has to run several camera pipelines, carry a GPU or frame grabbers and tolerate warm air, all at once. The CS650-C246CRM is the C246 build of the CS650 series, an industrial ATX motherboard that adds Xeon E processors to seven expansion slots and a -5 to 65 °C rating.

The LGA1151 socket takes the four-core Xeon E-2124G at 71 W, the six-core E-2176G and E-2226GE at 80 W and the eight-core E-2278GE at 80 W or E-2278GEL at 35 W, alongside 8th and 9th Gen Core i3, i5 and i7, including the eight-core i7-9700E, plus Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900. Four DDR4 2666 MHz DIMM slots take up to 128 GB. Intel UHD Graphics drives VGA and two DP++ outputs as three displays, and Intel AMT on the I219LM port works with Xeon, Core i5 and i7.

Expansion is two PCIe x16 slots, running as one x16 or two x8, three PCIe x4 Gen3 slots, a PCIe x1 Gen3 slot, a PCI slot and a full-size Mini PCIe slot. Storage covers an M.2 PCIe x4 Gen3 NVMe or SATA socket and four SATA 3.0 ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. The rear panel has six USB Type-A ports, two of them USB 3.1 Gen 2, two GbE ports and an RS-232/422/485 DB-9, and headers add six USB ports, five COM ports and 8-bit digital I/O.

The CS650-C246CRM runs from a standard ATX supply over 24-pin and 8-pin connectors, with an active CPU cooler, from -5 to 65 °C and 5 to 95% humidity, and carries UL, CE, FCC, KC and RoHS compliance. Where Core processors are enough, the CS650-Q370CRM keeps the same slots, I/O and temperature rating on the Q370 chipset.