Any shots in the dark anyone wants to take at how long it will take to see thunderbolt appear for threadripper 7000?
I am kinda shocked that board manufactorers haven’t caught on to the fact that people obviously want features like thunderbolt when you have a platform with this many lanes and use cases.
Aero d has it, have one, have tested it. Works fine
Now we just need to see that on the pro varient of threadripper 7000! Thats awesome that the Aero D has it! I have been watching a lot of your videos but i’ve been pretty discombobulated as of late.
ASRock TRX50 WS has the internal header for a Thunderbolt Add-in card.
the ASUS board has USB 4 headder also.
Hi there I’m a video/motion/sound person and looking to build a Threadripper system. I need thunderbolt for my workflow, It seems like the Aero D has thunderbolt built in , does one need an add in card or is this natively supported through the UBC4 ports?
The more recent TRX50 AI TOP look like a great board with support for more ram, 4 gen 5m.2 slots , dual gpu. Does anyone know if this has Thunderbolt support, I’m not sure how reach Gigabyte to find out and the manual doesn’t seem to mention anything. although maybe I missed it.
Manual says 2xUSB4 on an intel controller
Do note 8x dimms only works with a threadripper pro cpu. Otherwise it’s 4x.
Hi there, thanks for the info. Is this from the manual for the Aero D or the AI Top?
The reason I ask is that the Aero D manual also doesn’t show TB only USBC4 but as mentioned above in Wendell’s post it does have TB, I also received a screengrab from someone on another forum showing the TB controller in the system, weird that it isn’t mentioned in the manual, so that is why I am wondering if the AI top will also have TB even though it’s not mentioned in the manual, I’ll post screengrab showing TB on Aero D below. I’ll also show the manual screegrab form the Aero D.
I try to Always make clear. thunderbolt is Intel’s word but the technology is pcie tunneling over usb. I e. usb4
“thunderbolt compatible”
mostly at this point. somewhat compatible on the past. but now nearly completely compatible
Thanks for the information, I’ll look into Pcie tunnelling to get a better understanding.
AI Top
The terminology is a bit confusing, but AFAIK usb4 = TB4 for most intents and purposes. My AM5 board has the same controller and in the bios/drivers the terminology is used interchangeably. Maybe there are some differences in backwards compatibility to TB2 and below, not sure…
But it is again a bit of an issue with the usb consortium muddying things…
Thanks so much for the info, I really do appreciate it. I’m new to the HEDT world and trying to make the best decisions for my needs.
