14 DAY TRIAL // What’s Thin Mini-ITX exactly? Well, it’s a standard Mini-ITX format mobo that is ensured to fit its IO panel into the height limitations of a standard motherboard RJ45 LAN connector.
The standard is quite new and it likely attempts to achieve complete clearance to half of the height of the usual IO shield.
ECS showed two new boards in its Thin Mini-ITX family: the ECS CDC-TI based on a fanless design of the Atom D2700 / D2550 / D2500 Dual Core processors and the ECS H61H2-TI Thin Mini-ITX motherboard can support socket LGA1155 Intel 2nd and 3rd Generation Core processors.
The ECS CDC-TI pictured here has Solid Capacitors to better support its CPU and memory and features two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots that offer support for up to 4GB of RAM. It can work with two SATS 2 3Gb/s devices, has two USB 2.0 ports, two Mini-PCIe slots that are Full Height and Half Height respectively.
It also offers one VGA output, one HDMI and support for LVDS.
The CPU TPD of less than 10W, the fan-less design and low overall height of the motherboard makes it a perfect fit for AIO and SFF systems.
The ECS H61H2-TI is based on the Intel H61 Express chipset and comes with two SATA2 3Gb/s connectors, two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots with support for up to 16 GB of RAM and two USB 3.0 inputs. It also gets you two Mini-PCIe slots, 1 Full and 1 Half Height along with one mSATA connector and HDMI.
That’s quite a lot of performance for a mainboard of just 17cm by 17cm with a height below 2 cm.
