Shopping for Rackmount Computers

Which Rackmount Computer is the best fit for your application? 19-inch Industrial Rackmount computers are available in a variety of configurations including the following:

* Rack height: 1U, 2U , 4U , 5U rack mount chassis
* Passive Backplanes: PICMG 1.0 & PICMG 1.3 passive backplanes
* Comercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ATX Motherboards (example pictured)
* Expansion Slots: 2 to 20 slots containing ISA, PCI, PCI-Express x1, PCI-Express x 16, PCI-X, AGP, expansion slots
Choosing Rackmount Computers provides several advantages over a standard commercial system:

*Environmental & Vibration protection
*Long-Life enclosures
*Configurable Rack & easily swappable inputs
*Swappable Power Supplies in event of failure
*Removable Hard Drives


Rackmount Computer Systems can accommodate a high quantity of ISA card slots as well as a large PCI card slot count with PICMG 1.0 back planes. With PICMG 1.3 backplanes, systems can contain, ISA, PCI, PCI-Express x1 and PCI-Express x16 slots. Most systems can accommodate full length expansion cards.

19" Industrial Rack Mount Passive Back Plane computer systems can accommodate a wide variety of Single Board Computers such as VIA C3, Intel Pentium III, Celeron, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium M, Celeron D, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors. Ruggedized chassis have options for a variety of power supplies including hot-swap redundant supplies. Chassis features PS/2 keyboard/mouse and USB ports as well as shock mounted disk drives, positive pressure airflow from hot swappable fans and card hold clamps.

Rack mount systems can all be configured with 1U rackmount keyboard drawers, 15"/17"/19" rackmount or panel mount LCD's, or any of our KVM drawers. Rack mount and panel mount monitors are available with or without resistive touch screen. There are several guides online to make selecting and configuring your Industrial Rackmount Computer easier.