DFI CS630 Intel 8th and 9th Gen Core ATX Industrial Motherboards with H310 or Q370 Chipset and Seven Expansion Slots

Test rigs, lab instruments and older machine controllers often run on a stack of PCI cards that are expensive to requalify, and the host PC is usually what fails first. The DFI CS630 series is an ATX industrial motherboard on a 305 x 244 mm footprint that keeps five PCI slots, driven through a PCIe-to-PCI bridge, beside a PCIe x16 Gen3 slot and a PCIe x4 slot, with an LGA1151 socket for 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core processors.

The socket takes Core i7-8700, i5-8500 and i3-8100 in 65 W and 35 W T versions, the 9th Gen embedded Core i7-9700E, i7-9700TE, i5-9500E, i5-9500TE, i3-9100E and i3-9100TE, plus dual-core Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900, from two to eight cores and no listed processor above 65 W. Memory is DDR4 at 2400 or 2666 MHz. Intel UHD Graphics drives VGA, DVI-D and DP++ with 4K on the DisplayPort, and DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 and Linux support.

The CS630-Q370CRM uses the Intel Q370 chipset with four DIMM slots for up to 128 GB, three independent displays, a PCIe x4 Gen3 slot, an M.2 M-key socket for PCIe x4 Gen3 NVMe or SATA SSDs, a full-size Mini PCIe slot, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and Intel AMT on Core i5 and i7. The CS630-H310C uses the H310 chipset with two DIMM slots for up to 64 GB, two displays at once, a PCIe x4 Gen2 slot, a SATA-only M.2 socket and an Intel I219V controller with no AMT or vPro, for retrofits that need the PCI slots at a lower build cost.

Both boards have two GbE ports on Intel I210AT and I219 controllers and six COM ports: an RS-232/422/485 port on a rear DB-9, a second RS-232/422/485 and four RS-232 on headers, all with ±15 kV air-gap ESD protection. A 16-bit digital I/O header handles sensors, relays and indicators. The rear panel adds four USB 3.1 Gen 1 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, a PS/2 port and Realtek ALC888 audio.

Power comes from a standard ATX supply over 24-pin and 8-pin connectors, and the boards run from -5 to 65 °C, which gives some margin in warm instrument cabinets and plant rooms. TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer programmable from 1 to 255 seconds support secure, unattended operation, and the CS630 series carries CE, FCC, UKCA, KC and RoHS compliance.