Minisforum AD650i Mini-ITX a motherboard for house server
Intel Alder Lake CPUs on the coronary heart of the brand new motherboard.
AD650i Mini-ITX, Supply: Minisforum/EYERTEC
Minisforum is venturing into a brand new market phase with the introduction of their first ever standalone motherboard, the EYERTEC AD650i. This Mini-ITX board comes geared up with the Intel Core i5-12650H Alder Lake 10-core CPU, which is a cellular CPU. It distinguishes itself from most different Mini-ITX boards by omitting the PCIe x16 slot generally present in such motherboards.
A particular function of AD650i is an MXM-based enlargement card for solid-state storage. Whereas the corporate hasn’t disclosed info concerning potential MXM GPU help, the board contains an enlargement card that may accommodate as much as three PCIe Gen3 M.2 storage gadgets. Moreover, this enlargement card boasts help for a spread of RAID configurations, together with RAID0, RAID1, and RAID5, providing customers a large number of choices for using this method as a server. Moreover, the motherboard supplies help for 2 extra 2.5-inch SATA SSDs.
The system is marketed as a good selection for constructing high-speed house NAS (Community Connected Storage). This technique lacks discrete GPU, however video transcoding servers comparable to Plex are able to using Intel iGPU Fast Sync acceleration, it ought to nonetheless be able to 4 parallel 4K HEVC video streams.
AD650i Mini-ITX, Supply: Minisforum/EYERTEC
The system additionally packs USB4 help and a 2.5G community card. Customers may also plug as much as HDMI displays to this method. It’s necessary to notice that this product is just not an entire MiniPC however fairly a motherboard with sure elements pre-installed. The CPU cooler and the CPU itself are included within the bundle, however reminiscence and storage decisions are left to the consumer’s discretion, relying on their preferences or chosen configuration.
This technique is now accessible on TikTok Store (of all locations), priced at 2599 RMB ($354). This worth covers the CPU and motherboard with the enlargement slot, whereas customers might want to individually purchase DDR4-3200 reminiscence and storage in line with their wants and preferences.
Supply: Minisforum
