ASRock Industrial IMB-X1238 Intel Bartlett Lake and 14th Gen Core W680 Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboard with ECC, PCIe Gen5 and 4x COM

Vision, inspection and test builds often need a fast add-in card, serial devices and storage that survives a drive failure, on one small board. The ASRock Industrial IMB-X1238 is a W680 industrial Mini-ITX motherboard that covers those needs, taking Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S) and 14th, 13th and 12th Gen Core processors up to 65 W in an LGA1700 socket.

The W680 chipset gives the IMB-X1238 ECC and non-ECC DDR5 support across two SO-DIMM sockets, at 4800 or 5600 MHz and up to 96 GB. The Q670 IMB-1238 is the same board without ECC. A PCIe x16 Gen5 slot supports a riser card split as x8/x8. Storage comes from an M.2 Key M socket at PCIe Gen4 x4, a second M.2 Key M socket at PCIe Gen3 x4 with SATA, and four SATA 6Gb/s ports, with Intel VMD RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. Windows 11 and Linux are supported.

At the rear are one HDMI 2.0b, one HDMI 1.4b and one DisplayPort 1.4a, four USB 3.2 Gen2 and two USB 2.0 ports, two RS-232/422/485 COM ports on DB9, audio, an Intel I226V 2.5GbE port and an Intel I219LM GbE port with Intel vPro and AMT. Internally, one connector serves LVDS or eDP, selected in the BIOS, for up to four displays. Headers add two USB 3.2 Gen1 and two USB 2.0 ports, two RS-232 COM ports, four GPI and four GPO lines and a watchdog timer. M.2 Key E takes optional Wi-Fi, and M.2 Key B with a SIM socket takes optional 4G or 5G.

Power can come from a 24+4-pin ATX supply or a 12 V DC input, in AT or ATX mode. The board is rated from -20 °C to 70 °C in operation and -40 °C to 85 °C in storage, carries CE and FCC marks and has an onboard TPM 2.0. We supply the IMB-X1238 with the processor, memory and storage fitted and tested, on its own or built into a complete system. For a 12 to 28 V DC input with ECC, see the IMB-X1244-WV.