ASRock Industrial iEPF-9040S-EW4 Intel Core Series 2 Bartlett Lake R680E Industrial GPU Computer with RTX Ada Support and 4 PCIe Slots

Edge AI jobs that need a discrete GPU also need a slot, power cabling and cooling to match. The ASRock Industrial iEPF-9040S-EW4 is an expandable GPU computer on the Intel R680E chipset for Core (Series 2) Bartlett Lake-S processors, with four PCIe slots and an internal fan. It is a newer counterpart to the live iEPF-9020S-EY4.

The iEPF-9040S-EW4 takes LGA 1700 processors from 45 W to 65 W on ASRock’s support list, from the Core 3 201E to the Core 7 251E. Two DDR5 5600 SO-DIMM sockets take up to 96 GB, with ECC support when the R680E is paired with a selected CPU. Intel UHD Graphics drives DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.0b at up to 4K at 60 Hz, plus VGA. TPM 2.0 is on board, and Windows 11 and Linux are supported.

The PCIe Gen5 x16 slot runs as one x16 or two x8 with the Gen5 x8 slot, next to two PCIe Gen4 x4 slots. ASRock lists the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada, RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX 2000 Ada, RTX A2000 12GB and A2 as optional cards; the default power cable supports a card up to 180 W, or a single 600 W card with the optional VGA module. Networking is five 2.5GbE ports, two with 802.3at PoE. Storage is two M.2 NVMe slots and four SATA3 ports with RAID. An M.2 Key E slot and two M.2 Key B slots with two Nano SIMs take optional Wi-Fi, 4G or 5G modules.

Power is 9 to 36 V DC with 13-mode ignition control, a remote on/off switch and surge, over-voltage, under-voltage, over-current and reverse protection. The iEPF-9040S-EW4 is rated from -40 °C to 55 °C with its internal fan and no add-on card fitted, is tested to 50 G shock and 5 Grms vibration and carries CE and FCC Class A marks. We supply it configured and tested, with the processor, memory, storage, GPU card and OS image fitted. The iEPF-9042S-EW4 moves to the H610 chipset with one PCIe slot, and the iEP-9040E keeps similar I/O without GPU slots.