Wednesday, December 5th 2018
ECS Releases the H310XH5-TI Mini-ITX Motherboard for Coffee Lake-S
ECS has released a brand new Mini-ITX motherboard that supports 8th Gen Intel CPUs in the i3/i5/i7, Pentium and Celeron segments in the form of the H310XH5-TI. The motherboard is based on Intel's H310 chipset. Since there's no need for a souped-up VRM solution on this motherboard, there's a 4+1 phase affair present. There are 2x SO-DIMM slots with support for up to 32 GB of DDR4-2667 memory, 1x M.2-2280 slot for PCIe/SATA SSDs, 2x SATA 6 Gbps connectors, and 1x M.2 slot for a Wi-Fi/BT add-in card.
I/O wise, there are 1x GbE port (Realtek 8111H), 1x HDMI 1.4 output, 1x HDMI 1.4 input, 4x USB 3.0 Type-A connectors (two internal and two external), 2x USB 2.0 Type-A ports, and 2x audio jacks. Audio is powered by Realtek's ALC662 codec and a six-channel DAC. There's also a 19VDC input for power delivery straight to the motherboard, and numerous internal headers for expansion, such as a card reader header, a webcam header, a touch board header, a camera header, and an IR sensor header, which suggest a highly-integrated system that can be more than just a small PC.
Sources:
AnandTech, ECS
I/O wise, there are 1x GbE port (Realtek 8111H), 1x HDMI 1.4 output, 1x HDMI 1.4 input, 4x USB 3.0 Type-A connectors (two internal and two external), 2x USB 2.0 Type-A ports, and 2x audio jacks. Audio is powered by Realtek's ALC662 codec and a six-channel DAC. There's also a 19VDC input for power delivery straight to the motherboard, and numerous internal headers for expansion, such as a card reader header, a webcam header, a touch board header, a camera header, and an IR sensor header, which suggest a highly-integrated system that can be more than just a small PC.
13 Comments on ECS Releases the H310XH5-TI Mini-ITX Motherboard for Coffee Lake-S
Doesn't look too shabby (except ALC662). Not sure if it'll be available in retail for a couple of years. Their older H87 and H110 models(which look the same btw), only appeared on official ECS Ebay and Amazon stores not too long ago, which means they are probably just getting rid of leftovers.
Single-height IO and SO-DIMM slots on their sides cutting down on height.
(I registered precisely because there is so little info on inputting HDMI on a mb)
You plug something into the HDMI-IN port, you hit the hotkey and the video signal from that device will be redirected to HDMI-out. Other than that - there is no useful functionality. You can't even record or use splitscreen mode.
Especially with minimalistic ports
This board was designed with folks who need capture capabilities and not a ton of CPU power. It'll make for a perfect multi purpose video capture mini system.
This feature may be useful on AIO systems, if a person wants to use it as a monitor. I have a 3rd gen ASUS monoblock in my office which supports this feature (motherboard most likely made by ECS too).
For a regular desktop w/ shared display there are much better options (like an actual HDMI switch, or KVM).
If you don't trust my word, just google a few motherboards with HDMI input and read the manual.