DFI ADS310 Intel 14th Gen Core Micro-ATX Industrial Motherboards with Dual 10GbE Options and PCIe Gen5 x16

When an industrial system needs a full-size GPU or frame grabber and fast links to cameras or storage, a Micro-ATX board keeps the build compact while still giving it the slots to do the job. The DFI ADS310 series is a Micro-ATX industrial motherboard on the 244 x 244 mm footprint with an LGA1700 socket, so you choose the processor to suit the workload rather than buying a fixed build. Two 2.5GbE ports, with optional dual 10GbE (Intel E610), make it a good fit for vision, inspection and data-heavy edge systems.

The socket takes 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core, Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S), Intel Processor 300, Pentium and Celeron processors, from two cores to 24 and with TDPs up to 125 W. That spans a dual-core Celeron for a simple controller through to 24-core Core i9 and Core 7 parts for multi-stream vision or virtualized workloads. Four DDR4 3200 MHz DIMM slots take up to 128 GB in dual channel. Intel UHD Graphics drives four independent displays through VGA, two DP++ ports up to 4096 x 2304 at 60 Hz and HDMI 2.0a, and DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 LTSC and Linux support.

The two boards differ by chipset. The ADS310-R680E uses the Intel R680E chipset with ECC memory support, and its fourth slot, a PCIe x4 Gen3, carries full x4 signal. The ADS310-Q670E uses the Q670E chipset with non-ECC memory, and the same Gen3 slot runs at x1 signal. Both support Intel AMT on supported processors for remote management.

Expansion centres on a PCIe Gen5 x16 slot that runs as one x16 or two x8 links through a riser, plus two PCIe x4 Gen4 slots and the x4 Gen3 slot. Two M.2 M-key sockets take PCIe x4 Gen4 NVMe SSDs (one also SATA), an M.2 E-key socket takes Wi-Fi, and four SATA 3.0 ports support RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. Rear I/O has four USB 3.2 Gen 2 and four USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, with two more USB 3.2 Gen 1 and three USB 2.0 on internal headers, two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit digital I/O. The optional 10GbE pair uses an Intel E610-XAT2 controller and is chosen by ordering code.

Power comes from a standard ATX supply through 24-pin and 8-pin connectors, and the boards use active CPU cooling sized to the processor you choose. Operating temperature is -5 to 65 °C, which suits indoor cabinets, lab racks and equipment rooms. A TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer programmable from 1 to 255 seconds support secure, unattended operation, and the series carries CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance.