That’s kind of funny since @wendell’s video about shoving Thunderbolt onto a Threadripper motherboard was the reason why I looked more and more at Level1 Techs content and eventually joined the forum.
As mentioned TB3 worked for me with its virtual Ethernet Bridge functionality but I don’t have other TB3 devices to test at the moment.
If you choose to proceed with your build it would be very helpful if you could post your experiences then.
ASRock seems to be the only option for possible Thunderbolt utilization on AMD left right now since Gigabyte pulled its tail between its legs and no longer solders the Thunderbolt Header onto its X570 motherboards
SUCCESS!!
Got everything set up this evening. Just a test setup for now. Asrock X570 STeel Legend with an R7 3800X.
Gigabyte’s Titan Ridge add-in card. Installed the default drivers. Picked up my Presonus Quantum and the daisy-chained UAD 2 Satellite. All working in Presonus Studio One DAW.
I will get the proper setup going tomorrow and report any glitches, but could not be happier right now!!
Does anyone know if there is a new Titan Ridge TB3 firmware version that maybe addresses such issues? There’s nothing on Gigabyte’s website but since the only version of this AIC is Rev 1.0 that has been out for almost a year I doubt that there haven’t been any new firmware releases for thst chipset knowing Intel…
So far.
Display ports don’t look to work at all. I only have a 1 display port monitor, so no much to go with, But nothing from those ports.
USB 3. The only device I have is my phone. No issues with lock ups or BSOD’s. But the phone does not connect as a data device. (fast)Charges just fine from those ports, but no data connection.
So you go DP out from the GPU in your PC to DP in on the TB card also in your PC to then go DP out to a dock? But why not just go right from the GPU in the PC, you are all ready there with the GPU?
Edit: thinking about it more only makes it more only makes it more confusing. If you are doing it to have a 1 wire solution then you still have looping nest of cables going out of and back into your PC, maybe a bit tiboer but this seems like a really strange thing to add to a TB AIC just for the sake of a very odd use case.
Thunderbolt is supposed to always carry DisplayPort signals meaning if you get TB via an AIC you’ll get ugly short cable loops at the back of your system.
I get that DP is probably unnecesary for most needs but that’s the way that standard is built.
Can you just not? I mean can it just do.regular thunderbolt, USB and so on without having to have a DP signal present? Seems like a really stupid requirement.
I do have an intel PC that has thunderbolt but it is alpine ridge. It can do the DP and all that but being built in I never thought about it being required as it will be wired up anyway internally. I always just assumed it was mostly output so seeing the card with dedicated ins was very odd, I would have assumed at the very least they would have been bidirectional.
USB header was not fully plugged into MB. USB Type c connection now works with data transfer. I can hotplug with no issues. Connects and disconnects like a standard USB.
And I have no idea why, But the display port pass through now also works on both ports. It took an extra minute to boot up to the windows display , monitor flashing on and off while it did so. ( I may have been impatient first time around). I can hot plug with no lockups or reboots.
So it looks like all the functionality of the card works just fine.
One thing I am reporting to ASrock is that the secondary (maybe primary as well, but I don’t have a supported device). The M2 slots are disabled when Thunderbolt is enabled. Enabled Thunderbolt, M2 drive in secondary slot is gone, Disable it, It shows up again. There are no advanced thunderbolt options, just on and off. So nothing obvious to play with.
It’s normal that the second (or third, depending on motherboard) M.2 slot does not work if the lowest large PCIe slot is occupied since they share the PCIe lanes - so no reason to contact ASRock (respectively give the manual a read).
Can you please give further system details?
Used Windows 10 version (1809, 1903)
Used grahics card
Motherboard BIOS version
Also it might be that your connected cell phone only uses USB 2.0 that is not known to have issues so far.
That sucks with the PCIE slot. The Thunderbolt card has to reside there.
Cell phone works just fine now. No issues. I can data transfer no problem and hot plug.
Windows 10 V 1809
AMD RX 580 Graphics Card
Bios Version P1.70
I just came across this thread and I’m glad I did. I have just built a system with an X570 Taichi, 3900x, 5700 XT and use the Asrock Thunderbolt 3 AIC to connect to an LG Ultrafine 5k display over thunderbolt that I had when I used a mac. I’m a recent convert, go easy on me.
I’ve managed to get Windows 10 (1903) installed but I’ve got two issues that I would love some help debugging.
First, when I enable thunderbolt support in the bios, the system bootloops 2 or 3 times during POST, then boots up just fine. Weird!
Second, at full 5k resolution (using 2 DP cables into the AIC, then thunderbolt to the display) the monitor randomly disconnects, flickers, and reconnects.
Do you have the “fixed” version of that display with better EMF shielding?
The first version was negatively impaired with 2.4 GHz wireless stuff (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, badly shielded USB 3.0 devices/cables).
Apple uses a non-standard TB implementation.
To drive the 5K display without any issues Apple muxed the two separate DP 1.2 signals of TB into one Frankenstein’s Monster pseudo 1.2+, since a single DP 1.2 connection that absolutely adheres to its standard might have trouble driving that amount of pixels@60 Hz@10 bit color.
So maybe since the non-Apple TB hardware of your PC strictly obeys the rules these glitches appear since it only sends a single DP 1.2 signal to the display.
Maybe this could be helped by using a Titan Ridge AIC, I don’t know.
Another obvious thing to try is a different TB cable maybe that one has a signal integrity issue for some reason.
