DFI CMS100 Intel 10th Gen Core and Xeon W Mini-ITX Motherboards with W480E, Q470E or H420E Chipset and Dual LAN

Industrial equipment built around a Mini-ITX board and a standard ATX supply often stays in production for many years, and the processor that suits the first build may not suit the next revision. The DFI CMS100 series answers that with a socketed LGA1200 board of 170 x 170 mm, so the processor is chosen to match the workload and the cooling in the enclosure rather than fixed on the board.

Each CMS100 board accepts 10th Gen Intel Core (Comet Lake) i9, i7, i5 and i3 processors, from four to ten cores, in 65 W E and 35 W TE versions. Two DDR4 2933 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 64 GB. Intel UHD Graphics encodes and decodes HEVC, VP9 and H.264 in hardware and drives DP++, HDMI 1.4b and DVI-I at the rear, with LVDS and eDP inside, for up to four displays at once. HDMI or a second DP++ port is a build option.

CMS100-W480IB uses the Intel W480E chipset and is the only build that takes Xeon W-1290E, W-1270E and W-1250E processors at up to 95 W with ECC memory, and their 35 W TE versions, alongside the Core range. CMS100-Q470IB uses the Q470E and adds two-core Pentium and Celeron options. Both have six rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and Intel vPro through the I219LM port. CMS100-H420IB uses the H420E with an Intel I219V GbE controller and no AMT or vPro, five rear USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports and one USB 2.0, and PCIe x1 on the M.2 slots.

Every board has a 2.5GbE port on an Intel I225LM controller and a GbE port, two RS-232/422/485 ports on DB9 connectors at the rear, 8-bit DIO and two SATA 3.0 ports. An M.2 E-key (2230) takes Wi-Fi, an M.2 B-key (2242/3042) sits beside a Nano SIM slot, and an M.2 M-key (2280) takes NVMe storage at PCIe Gen3 x4 on the W480E and Q470E builds. The PCIe x16 slot runs at Gen3 from the processor, for a GPU, frame grabber or network card.

Power comes from a standard ATX supply on 24-pin and 8-pin connectors. The boards operate from -5 to 65 °C and carry CE, FCC, UKCA, UL, CB and RoHS compliance, with fTPM as standard and a discrete TPM as an option, a watchdog programmable from 1 to 255 seconds and Realtek ALC888 audio. DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 and Linux, and offers thermal solutions for 35 W, 65 W and higher-power processors.