Taipei, Taiwan, – Axiomtek’s MANO861 industrial-grade Mini ITX motherboard based on the Intel® H61 Express chipset is designed for the 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors in LGA1155 socket. The high performance MANO861 comes with two DDR3 1333/1600 MHz SO-DIMM slots with up to 16 GB memory capacity. This cost-effective motherboard supports dual-view capability through DVI-D, VGA, and LVDS interface. It also reserved one PCI Express Mini Card slot and one PCIe x4 slot to provide for flexible applications. With a small footprint of only 170 x 170 mm, the embedded board offers a full feature set of I/O which allows system integrators to deploy their solution with this platform easily. The MANO861 is designed for customers in the industrial automation, gaming, kiosk, POS and signage markets, who are looking for advanced performance in both computing and graphics and cost optimized solution.

“Axiomtek’s new MANO861 Mini-ITX form factor board supporting Intel® H61 Express chipset and using LGA1155 for 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family is designed for power and cost sensitive applications. Its three SATA 3.0Gb/s ports provide enough storage space. Similar to typical Mini ITX motherboards, this embedded board offers rich I/O like six USB 2.0 ports, six COM ports as well as two Gigabit Ethernet ports. Users also can increase board functionality with PCIe x4 and PCI Express Mini Card slots. The supported display interfaces include DVI-D, LVDS, and VGA,” said David Chiu, PM of Product Planning Division at Axiomtek.

To ensure reliable operation, the MANO861 supports watchdog timer, hardware monitoring and SMART FAN features. This extreme compact motherboard also meets all requirements for the Windows® 7 OS. The rich I/O interfaces and expansions include three SATA-300 ports, six USB 2.0 ports, two Gigabit LANs, 8 channels digital I/O (4-IN/4-OUT), VGA, DVI-D, LVDS, HD audio, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, PCI Express Mini Card slot, and PCIe x4 slot.

Axiomtek MANO861 Mini ITX motherboard will be available around the end of March, 2013.