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The mini ITX tag on WindowsForum.com covers compact 170 mm × 170 mm board designs and the trade-offs that come with them. Recent discussion centers on AAEON's MIX-PTLWV1, an industrial Mini-ITX board built around Intel Panther Lake-era Core Ultra processors, with dual DDR5 SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 128 GB at DDR5-6400. A recurring theme is that headline features are often optional: the board's four-port network layout, including 10GbE, depends on a separate four-LAN SKU rather than the base two-port 2.5GbE configuration. That distinction matters for compact firewalls, edge gateways, machine-vision controllers, and industrial PCs.
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    AAEON MIX-PTLWV1: 10GbE Requires Four-LAN SKU

    AAEON’s MIX-PTLWV1 puts Intel’s Panther Lake-era Core Ultra processors into a 170 mm × 170 mm Mini-ITX industrial board with a headline feature that deserves a qualifier: the four-port network configuration is optional, not standard. The base configuration carries two 2.5GbE ports, while the two...