Arestech BPC-5080-1A1 Coffee Lake Intel Core Wide Temperature Industrial Box PC with 3x DisplayPort

Video walls, multi-screen signage and image-processing stations need display outputs and fast storage before anything else, and a desktop PC behind the screens is usually the weak link. The Arestech BPC-5080-1A1 is the Q370 model in the BPC-5080 series, a fanless industrial box PC with three DisplayPort outputs up to 4K and an NVMe-capable M.2 slot.

The LGA1151 socket takes 9th and 8th Gen Intel Core processors, with Arestech listing the Core i7-9700T, i7-8700T, i5-8500T and i3-8100T plus Pentium G5400T and Celeron G4900T options. Two DDR4 2666 SO-DIMM sockets hold up to 64 GB with Core i5 and above, or 32 GB with Core i3, Pentium and Celeron, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 handles video decode and display on the BPC-5080-1A1.

On the BPC-5080-1A1, the Intel Q370 chipset drives three DisplayPort 1.2 outputs at up to 4096 x 2304 at 60 Hz and supports RAID 0/1. The M.2 M Key 2242/2260/2280 slot carries PCIe x4 and SATA III for an NVMe SSD. Three COM ports sit at the front, COM1 and COM2 as RS-232 and COM3 as RS-232/422/485, and networking runs on an Intel I219LM and an Intel I210 GbE controller. Four USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports at the rear and four USB 2.0 ports at the front cover cameras and peripherals, two 7 mm 2.5″ SATA III bays hold data drives, and a full-size mini-PCIe slot plus an M.2 E Key 2230 slot take Wi-Fi or Bluetooth modules.

Power arrives at 12 V or 19 to 28 V DC through a Phoenix connector, with typical consumption of 15.7 W at 24 V. The BPC-5080-1A1 runs fanless from -20 °C to 60 °C when fitted with extended-temperature memory and an M.2 SSD, which places it in the wide-temperature class, and it is tested to 1 Grms random vibration and 20 G shock. The industrial box PC measures 238 x 61 x 245 mm, weighs 3.22 kg and wall mounts. Where a VGA monitor has to stay in service, the BPC-5080-2A1 swaps one DisplayPort output for VGA on the H310 chipset.