X570 Aorus Xtreme/Master... was it originally intended to have Thunderbolt support?

[aBav.Normie-Pleb]

Can recommend the ASRock X570 Taichi with the Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 AIC for full-fledged Titan Ridge TB3 with full 100 W power delivery now.

Works out of the box, I was super lucky, my first X570 Taichi seems to have been a defective lemon.

[SOLVED] ASRock X570 Taichi/Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge AIC: Thunderbolt 3 devices OK - But USB 3/DisplayPort device Hotplug causes BSoD

SOLVED - ISSUES WERE CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE MOTHERBOARD

With a replacement motherboard (same hardware revision, same BIOS version) you can just pop the Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt AIC into the lowest PCIe slot, connect Thunderbolt, USB 2.0 header and PCIe power delivery cables and it JUST WORKS with the drivers you can download on Gigabyte’s website fr the GC-Titan Ridge.

Goddamn, the wasted time.