DFI CS551-H310-BCA Intel Coffee Lake Core 3.5″ Industrial Motherboard with H310 Chipset, Dual LAN and 12 V DC Input

Many machine controllers and operator panels need a socketed Core processor and three displays, but not the fastest USB or NVMe storage. The CS551-H310-BCA is the H310 chipset build of the DFI CS551 series, a 3.5″ industrial motherboard that keeps the LGA1151 socket and display set of its siblings with simpler USB and M.2 connections.

The socket accepts 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core T and TE processors (Coffee Lake) at 35 W, from the dual-core Celeron G4900T and Pentium G5400T through the four-core Core i3-8100T and i3-9100TE and six-core i5-8500T, i5-9500TE and i7-8700T to the eight-core i7-9700TE. That lets one board serve a basic HMI and a heavier controller with only the processor changed. One DDR4 2666 MHz SO-DIMM takes up to 32 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 runs two DP++ outputs at up to 4096 x 2304 at 60 Hz plus dual-channel LVDS at up to 1920 x 1200.

The H310 build has four USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and its M.2 M-key 2280 socket runs a PCIe x1 NVMe or SATA SSD, with a SATA 3.0 port beside it. Two GbE ports on Intel I211AT or I210IT controllers, a full-size mini PCIe socket for Wi-Fi or 4G, two internal USB 2.0 ports, an RS-232/422/485 header, 8-bit DIO and Realtek ALC262 audio complete the I/O.

The CS551-H310-BCA runs from 12 V DC on a 4-pin connector, with a barrel jack on request, and is rated from -5 to 65 °C with 35 W processors, with CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance, on a fanless heatsink as standard. For USB 3.1 Gen 2 and a PCIe x4 M.2 socket, choose the CS551-Q370-BCA; the CS551-H310-ECA takes this chipset to -30 to 80 °C.