DFI Revolutionizes Industrial Computing with World's First MicroATX Motherboards

[TheLostSwede]

DFI, the world's leading brand in embedded motherboards and industrial computers, is thrilled to announce two of the world's first Industrial MicroATX motherboards to support Intel Core 12th, 13th, and 14th (Alder Lake-S, Raptor Lake-S and Raptor Lake-S Refresh) Gen Processors. "With support for the latest Intel Core processors and features including dual GPU slots and dual 10GbE ports, RPS310 and ADS310 represent a significant leap forward in innovation for industrial and medical computing, empowering manufacturing and healthcare professionals to achieve new levels of efficiency," said Jarry Chang, General Manager of Products Center at DFI.

RPS310
Featuring dual PCIe x16 Gen 4 GPU slots, addresses key challenges for Factory Automation professionals working in Smart manufacturing field, enabling improved visualized data, complex imagery processing and quality monitoring in automated production lines. RPS310 is also perfect for medical professionals to analyze Medical imaging data with unprecedented image quality and efficiency, improving diagnosis accuracy on MRIs and CT Scanners and X-rays.




ADS310
In medical settings, the dual 10GbE ports of the ADS310 offer lightning-fast network connectivity and accelerated data transfer speeds, providing crucial advantages to healthcare professionals. These ports enable quick access to large medical imaging files and improved transfer speeds between PACS servers, accelerating diagnosis and treatment processes. Similarly, in factory automation, they ensure rapid data transfer between machines, enhancing monitoring and response capabilities.

Highlighted Features
RPS310

• 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core with Intel R680E/Q670E chipset
• Dual PCIe x16 Gen 4 GPU Slots
• Built-in Out-Of-Band (OOB) Remote Management
• Rich I/O and Expansion
• 125 W TDP
• Compliance & Certification: CE, FCC, Class B, RoHS

ADS310

• 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core with Intel R680E/Q670E chipset
• Dual 10GbE Ports
• Rich I/O and Expansion
• 125 W TDP
• Compliance & Certification: CE, FCC, Class B, RoHS

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[LabRat 891]

I know the title's already a mouthful, but...

Missing

-to support Intel Core 12th, 13th, and 14th Gen Processors

really makes the PR come off as ridiculous.


On-topic:
Kinda curious why any Industrial Mobo manu is making Intel-brand Consumer-CPU compatible boards? Intel has a recent reputation for EoLing products quickly, and "Industrial Use" PCs need to have 5-10Year support cycles.

 

[Deleted member 239770]

Expected a Lan Party...

 

[Wirko]

On-topic:
Kinda curious why any Industrial Mobo manu is making Intel-brand Consumer-CPU compatible boards? Intel has a recent reputation for EoLing products quickly, and "Industrial Use" PCs need to have 5-10Year support cycles.

The situation is much better if you ignore the K processors. The i7-8700 and 8700T are still listed and "Launched". Many 10th gen processors too. Support for some 7th gen parts expired 11 days ago. Look here for example. But the CPUs on long support often have E and TE suffixes and are pretty much unknown to most people, let alone compulsive upgraders.

I don't know but I assume Intel has a support policy that's known at launch of each generation of CPUs, so industrial (and business) users know what they are getting.

 

[LabRat 891]

Expected a Lan Party...

Other than OCing, these would be perfectly acceptable for such uses. TBQH, these 'Industrial' boards have WAY better expansion options vs. what's consumer-facing. (also higher thermal and vibration tolerances, IIRC)

NGL, 'Been tempted to pickup a more-modern DFI industrial board, and paint the slots, etc.

The situation is much better if you ignore the K processors. The i7-8700 and 8700T are still listed and "Launched". Many 10th gen processors too. Support for some 7th gen parts expired 11 days ago. Look here for example. But the CPUs on long support often have E and TE suffixes and are pretty much unknown to most people, let alone compulsive upgraders.

I don't know but I assume Intel has a support policy that's known at launch of each generation of CPUs, so industrial (and business) users know what they are getting.

Fair. I'd forgotten about that.

IIRC, even a few years ago, there were a couple Haswell (Refresh) SKUs not yet EoL.

 

[Wirko]

Fair. I'd forgotten about that.

IIRC, even a few years ago, there were a couple Haswell (Refresh) SKUs not yet EoL.

But I'm not sure how to read the Ark data. For example, the i7-6700 has Marketing status listed as "Launched" but its Servicing status is "End of Servicing Lifetime".

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

WTB DFI gaming motherboards again

 

[LabRat 891]

WTB DFI gaming motherboards again

Yup. Same.

DFI's consumer-enthusiast boards were born out of genuine enthusiasm within DFI's design/dev team(s). Company Culture (everywhere) has changed.

While I could see 'a return' being as simple as writing custom firmware w/ OCing, subtracting some of the remote management features, and subbing-in 'colorful' slots, etc.
-They'd still be $250-500 motherboards.

Some of us, might be *that* nostalgic for DFI LanParty boards but, I'm doubting it'd be possible to be 'successful' and 'profitable'.

 

[overclockedamd]

WTB DFI gaming motherboards again

This is all I desire every time I see DFI's name.

 

[freeagent]

I was more of an Abit guy.. popped in because old names and all..

It would be nice to have another well established player making hardware for us again

Edit:

Grammar error

 

[Terronium-12]

Can DFI return to the consumer market? Please?

 

[MachineLearning]

I was more of an Abit guy.. popped in because old names and all..

It would be nice to have another well established played making hardware for us again

If DFI comes back to the consumer market in the next 5 years, they'll probably sell well. After that, not enough people would remember or care. It's been 14 years already...

Sadly, I think it's unlikely. Although last I checked they still have Oskar Wu with them.

 

[Bones]

Expected a Lan Party...

That's LanParty "Jr." to you.

Yeah, would be nice if they did it again.
They could make one like the Impact series from Asus so we know it can be done but DFI, like Soyo did years ago got out of the enthusiast segment of board making.

We can dream and hope but I believe that ship has sailed and sunk.

 

[nienorgt]

DFI Revolutionizes Industrial Computing with World's First MicroATX Motherboards

I can't be alone to have read this as if they were announcing the first ever mATX boards lol.

Meanwhile what most people on this site would really want to see is a 15 years follow-up from the LANparty JR... (to stay on the topic of mATX boards)

 

[Massdeth]

WOOOAAH!!!!! I almost fell off my chair when i saw this in the news feed. WHAT?!?!? Theyre back?? NOOOOOO.

 

[Woomack]

It's funny how so many people remember how the DFI LanParty series was overclocking. Somehow, no one remembers the ridiculously high RMA rate. I was working in distribution back then, and we stopped selling them because of too high losses from RMA. The same did many other distributors. I guess it was one of the reasons for their problems.

 

[overclockedamd]

It's funny how so many people remember how the DFI LanParty series was overclocking. Somehow, no one remembers the ridiculously high RMA rate. I was working in distribution back then, and we stopped selling them because of too high losses from RMA. The same did many other distributors. I guess it was one of the reasons for their problems.

I had a DFI Lan Party Venus for the better part of 15 years with HEAVY HEAVY overclocks on it with no issues.

 

[phanbuey]

DFI is back... with the first ever "industrial" m-itx boards...

Delayed april fool's joke?

 

[bug]

On-topic:
Kinda curious why any Industrial Mobo manu is making Intel-brand Consumer-CPU compatible boards? Intel has a recent reputation for EoLing products quickly, and "Industrial Use" PCs need to have 5-10Year support cycles.

This kind of contracts are governed by other ToS and agreements than your average retailer.

Think of how Microsoft will patch old Windows versions for enterprises, long after their EoL. For a price, of course.

 

[voklskier4452]

I know the title's already a mouthful, but...

Missing

really makes the PR come off as ridiculous.


On-topic:
Kinda curious why any Industrial Mobo manu is making Intel-brand Consumer-CPU compatible boards? Intel has a recent reputation for EoLing products quickly, and "Industrial Use" PCs need to have 5-10Year support cycles.

Typically industrial PC manufacturers use TE or E SKUs from intel. You can still buy systems with Skylake processors from various industrial PC companies since many times companies don't need the latest and greatest and they only actually care about reliability and longevity.

 

[LabRat 891]

It's funny how so many people remember how the DFI LanParty series was overclocking. Somehow, no one remembers the ridiculously high RMA rate. I was working in distribution back then, and we stopped selling them because of too high losses from RMA. The same did many other distributors. I guess it was one of the reasons for their problems.

TBF, their Mobos were meant to "fix it 'till its broken." Even if you knew what you were doing, LanParty Boards would often let you go 'too far'. Which, was awesome!

Probably why Today's XOC Enthusiast class boards are so insanely expensive; you're (figuratively) buying 2+ boards in your initial purchase.

 

[ypsylon]

Move over DFI with your not at all revolutionary, puny Intel Core whatever.

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=GENOAD8UD-2T/X550#Specifications

If there is one company which is synonymous for micro-ATX and industrial/server its AsRock Rack division. There is plenty of microATX/deep micro-ATX to choose from.

 

[Jeager]

Expected a Lan Party...

Haha same here, and no AMD, I'm disappointed !

 

[regs]

Haven't heard of DFI for over 15 years

 

[alwayssts]

TBF, their Mobos were meant to "fix it 'till its broken." Even if you knew what you were doing, LanParty Boards would often let you go 'too far'. Which, was awesome!

Probably why Today's XOC Enthusiast class boards are so insanely expensive; you're (figuratively) buying 2+ boards in your initial purchase.

Yeah, you and I are certainly on the same page.

I appreciated Abit for their stability; having what Oskar did was icing on the cake. DFI (to us, the enthusiast 'back then') took what he was able to do and then built hardware capability around it AFAICT.

Did they take it too far? Probably. Were my DFI boards ever as stable as my NF7-S (I had both versions) et al boards? No. Do I believe what was said above wrt their RMA rate? Yes.

The boards I've used since (mostly Asus) I'd place in the middle; more stable but less exciting than DFI. Less stable, but more fun than Abit.

That's the whole thing: It was fun to mod the Ultra-D to an SLI board, run ram off the 5v rail (and overclock the bejesus out of low-latency Winbond BH-5/high-bandwidth TCCD), etc.

It was actually exciting, because you knew you were actually operating outside of intended spec. Was it for everyone (even some that bought them)? Most certainly not.

There was a shift at some point...If you lived through it and IYKYK...but the 'enthusiast' crowd slowly shifted from knowledgeable modders that knew the risk to populist software that was used en masse.

Things like programmable voltage (through things like Afterburner), rather than requiring somebody to solder a pot, were both a blessing and a plague.

When I degraded my OCZ (remember Ryan? 'Unique' dude to many...) Winbond/Sammy DIMMs, I knew I was at fault; bought more. Made sure I had more Delta screamers pointed at them the next time.

When I delidded a chip and cracked the core mounting a waterblock, hence releasing the magic smoke (for those that don't know: silicon dust is that 'new electronics' smell), I didn't ask for an RMA.

Many did, though. It was that mentality mixed with people that probably shouldn't have been doing what they were doing that took many players out of the game, and caused others to adapt.

The turning point (imo) was when OCZ was going to mass-produce a R134 rig on the cheap (planned to be a fraction what my vapochill cost), but then pulled out of the game completely due to the risk.

As I've mentioned before, this, coupled with nVIDIA locking down everything, shifted the type of person that 'enthusiast' computing was catered towards. It increased the market size, but...

I'm glad that more people got into the hobby bc of ease of use; glad there are/were successful boutique companies/services that did well with 'safe' overclocking.

But, that said, I do think with that increase in the quantity/ease of use wrt overclocking, it degraded the overall quality of the community, and because of that we have increased restrictions 'for our own good'.

I do generally become saddened when we see AMD's X3D chips with locked voltage, because I don't want it to be so, but I also understand WHY they did it. Because some Asus people would blow it up.

I get bummed out about power limits and voltage restrictions on GPUs....because I think many of us knew you often needed to change the cooling in certain scenarios. Some, however, don't/didn't.

It's becomes a difficult thing to talk about at some point, as I don't want to come across elitist. That said, I'm also saddened 'real' overclocking largely has left us; it's WHY I enjoyed this hobby to begin with.

That, and the people. The make-shift engineers that operated both within and outside the companies for products they worked on. Them talking, sharing; having access to them. That's largely gone.

While some of it was AMD/nVIDIA worried about market segmentation and losing margains on higher-end chips, some of it was due to people that would never touch a soldering iron using software that could brick their hardware, and then asking for a replacement. Also, sure, some board partners just took things too far on a certain product design and/or configuration. Those things suck.

What bums me out the most is losing out on amazing people and what they were able to come up (like pin/power mods, unsigned bios/driver mods, etc) that pushed the envelope beyond not perhaps just what the original creators intended, but we were actually capable of achieving; perhaps due to standards/safeguards/margins/yields/etc for a generalized product.

Big 'overclocking' news these days is AMD allowing a greater number to be entered into the RAM frequency on a GPU. A true sign that 'overclocking' is now pretty much baked-in, fake, and commercialized.

It used to be people like TiN/Kingpin or Oskar with a new power-adding gadget or software/bios revision on the reg. Might they take your tweak to the next level? Maybe. Might they start a fire? Possibly.

It was a true hobby that actually required skill, and it was fun. You never knew if you could find a way to get that extra mhz, but now there's pretty much a hard, but artificial, wall on 'most' things. 'Protections'.

It feels like those cats (whom I appreciate dearly) tested the fences raptor-style; were the hackers that nabbed the bounties for us but then were patched to protect against.

Now they've largely disappeared, been disappeared, retired, or been obsoleted...and it bums me out...because largely nobody has replaced them...and they MADE this community.

'Overclocking' has become a falacy; binned chips (and/or added v/pl) gate-kept by price. Real OCing was going beyond what could be guarenteed at your own risk, which may yield tangible fruit; that's gone.

I haven't visited XS in years, and haven't messaged Oskar in over a decade. I hope he is well, and that he is happy. I still appreciate what he did for us, and probably still does for others in a different way.

I'm sure he had opportunities to join other companies with his endeavors, but chose to stay at DFI when they went full industrial. That always felt like a huge loss to me, but I could understand why he did it...

...Perhaps so he didn't have to fight against a machine he was trying to improve but in many ways was working against him, and in the end didn't have to take his skills/talents elsewhere (like so many others).