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Hi, can i am asking for advice. Because i am having LG Ultrafine 4K almost 1 year, but i found today 1 dead pixel and I am refunding that unit back to Apple. I really liked this monitor but, it has some disadvantages like glossy surface and no HDMI inputs. What i like is just plug macbook pro in and i am ready to go without power bricks and etc. But maybe there is some better option than this monitor, i need something similar with Thunderbolt 3 which can also charge my macbook. I also want resolution 4K or 5K and maximum size for me is 27 inches. I am using it only for programming iOS apps, nothing more. I looked on options and i found alternative like BenQ PD2720U but not sure of it's quality, also i am thinking about LG Ultrafine 5K, but it has same disadvantages like their 4K and even 1 thunderbolt less :(. Do you have some experience with monitors for macbooks over Thunderbolt 3 or can you give me some advice. Thank you.

So i currently use a Dell xps15 9575 2-in-1 laptop as my main computer, for both work and gaming. specifically larger autoCAD 2D and 3D files, 3D Studio Max for image rendering and the Adobe photo editing suite. I definitely need more cpu power than this device can provide but the draw to this device for me was the touch screen for artwork and asset creation and the thunderbolt 3 ports for an eGPU and a 10gb NAS. After seeing a few reviews of AMD's new Ryzen cpu's and what they are capable of in laptops, it made me start to think about what the next laptop i upgrade to will be. But I haven't seen any AMD laptops with thunderbolt 3 ports which will be a requirement for me since i take the laptop between my home office and work office. Do you think once manufacturers start to put these AMD cpu's in high end devices we will start to see them with thunderbolt 3 ports or do you think this is this a patent that intel is holding onto for their laptop devices? i always thought this was why apple never used AMD cpu's, even in the new MacPro, because they have set themselves up in a thunderbolt 3 peripheral environment. I also considered that it could be an r&d issues as most of the devices we see released this year were already being developed a few years ago when intel was top dog. Anyway, i made this thread to see if anyone else was interested in this or if it was just me. If you do, share your thoughts.

Budget (including currency): ~1,500 Country: canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: games, browsing Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): thunderbolt display I am trying to build my father a pc he can play games on. he has a mac mini with a retina display that he would like to keep using. I would like to build something with an AMD 3600 and a gtx1660 super. I am having a really hard time finding any clear information about using this display on a pc any help would be super appreciated, thanks

Hi LTT community, I am looking at creating a single machine to serve as a both a server (for media (plex), and package manager server) and a normal desktop workstation (mainly used for software development). So here are some more details... Motivation / Background: I currently have a desktop (4790K, GTX970, 16GB DDR3) which is great but I would really love more cores for building. I am a software engineer, and I often build gcc/clang and other big projects where multi-core scaling is utilized extremely well. So I have been wanting to upgrade to an at least 8c/12t cpu, above 16c/32t would be overkill for my work though. So I could just upgrade my desktop and be done with it .. but I have recently also started a plex server on my desktop, which is great but it means I have to boot up my desktop top in the other room whenever I want to watch plex on the TV. I would leave my desktop on, but I am at work (when there isn't a pandemic) for most hours of the day and don't want it sitting there being power hungry for 90% of the day (including night time of course). So I am really looking for a solution where I can upgrade my desktop to have more cores, and have some abstract machine (virtual or physical) which is running 24/7 as a server. So I could upgrade my desktop AND buy a separate NAS (QNAP or DIY, not important) .. or I could think of a much cooler / complex over the top solution which would be an awesome project / setup and see if the LTT community shuns or redeems my idea. The Plan: Have one beastly machine, 16c/32t at least 32GB RAM, with virtual environments for a server and workstation. With a single thunderbolt interface from the server to my desk where the peripherals will connect. Ideally I'd like to have this off in another room but I don't have the space. (Yes this is a little inspired from Linus' gaming server / remote peripherals setup). So I was thinking of getting an AMD 3950X (16 cores, I can dedicate at least 12 to my workstation), at least 32GB of RAM (maybe 64), keep my current graphics card (I'm not a big gamer, don't need the upgrade), and I would need help knowing what motherboard I would need to best support thunderbolt-ness. Also what type of power supply I should look into? Should I get a server-style case which supports redundant power supplies, or should I just get a UPS. I hope my plan makes sense, I would really like if anyone could give me any past experiences on if this is a stupid idea and I should just get a simple low powered NAS; is this setup even via-able? would it draw a lot of power in idle? what are some possible downfalls I might run into? (e.g. I have heard plex doesn't like hardware acceleration with containers / virtual environments). Also how server oriented should I go with this, server rack-styled case / ECC memory (I don't think it's necessary...). Notes: when I say "virtual environment" I mean anything from unraid to docker to whatever, I haven't done this before so if anyone has a good guide on what to read/use for this setup that would be great. I use linux (20.04) for both server and workstation at the moment. I have never used thunderbolt before (with a desktop), would appreciate any information on what's required here. I don't have any need for Plex remote, it's only local use and it's only every one streamer at once. (I could see a future where there is 2, but unlikely). So the plex server doesn't need too much horsepower. Thank you to anyone who actually read all this, and great thanks to anyone who end's up replying!

Dutch IT student Björn Ruytenberg discovered a persistent hack for the Thunderbolt eco-system. A well-prepared hacker could gain access to a device via this port within 5 mins. Complete story here: https://www.tue.nl/en/news/news-overview/10-05-2020-eindhoven-security-researchers-find-fatal-vulnerabilities-in-thunderbolt/ A tool was released to investigate whether a port is vulnerable via this link: https://thunderspy.io/ Article on Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/thunderspy-thunderbolt-evil-maid-hacking/

My motherboard (asus z370-f) has a usb-c connection, but what is the point of it? Because as far as I understand its not thunderbolt 3. So why even put it there?

Hello, I’m having issues installing the ThunderboltEX 3 on my X99-A 2 board and I’m hoping you guys can help. Specs: MOBO: X99-A 2 CPU: i7-6850k GPU: 2 GTX 1070 SLI (in slots 1 and 3) Extras: Blackmagic Design Decklink SDI 4k (slot 2) I have the ThunderboltEX 3 in slot 4, installed the driver from ASUS site before installation, and hooked everything up according to the manual. BIOS sees the card and I can fiddle with the options from there. I can boot from the BIOS, but when I plug something into the USB 3.1 slot, I get nothing. When I restart the PC to get back into BIOS, I get stuck in a boot loop until I disconnect the TB card header from the MOBO. I turned off CSM on boot per a suggestion from someone who was having issues with this card, and that didn’t seem to do the trick. I’m kind of at my wits end with this one. May not be anything of note, but I tried looking to see if the driver was actually installed on my PC, and I can’t seem to find anything when I use Nirsoft Drivers List. Honestly, though, I’m not sure what to look for.

So I was watching the JayzTwoCents video on the new ROG eGPU enclosure and also watched his second video where he attempts to get better performance and I got to wondering. Does the cable length of the thunderbolt cable make a difference? Im not talking about the quality of the data that goes through. I don't think that it degrades any. The bigger thing was getting data to and from the enclosure faster. By going from a 3 ft. cable to a 1 ft cable reducing significantly the amount of possible instructions pulsing through the cable at any second while also reducing the total travel time (which is small granted). Or at least I think it does. I did some flimsy math based on the speed of light vs. the possibly amount of cycles of cpu data that could be sent based on a quad core processor. Basically at the speed of light and rounding down to 3ghz you could have about 30 cycles worth of data in the cable at any given time per core at 3 feet. This number is down to 10 per core at a 1 ft cable. My Google Fu has failed to produce any search results for such things and figured I would ask here to see if anyone might have encountered this.

Hi i'd like to know if this one is compatible or are there better/cheaper ones. All i need are at least 2 Video outputs and a couple of USB ports and a ethernet jack would be nice.

Hi! With the launch of Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C I had an interesting idea — What if your entire desktop PC used a Thunderbolt 3 and power cable for all of the IO. It would be awesome to connect just the display to one Thunderbolt cable, then have everything else either wireless or connected to the display through daisy chaining. Cost aside, is there any reason that this wouldn't work? It would be awesome to have a high end gaming desktop using just one cable for graphics, audio, and maybe USB mice and keyboards.

Hey all, I made a post about this a little while ago under displays, but I figured TB3 was more of a laptop thing rather than a display thing. With TB3 becoming more common on laptops due to apples push, the Razer Blade Stealth (RBS), which Linus had reviewed a little while ago has ONE Thunderbolt 3 Port. I have been wanting to run displayport off of the RBS. This may seem straight forward until you realize you can't charge while using the laptop for DP unless you find some kind of TB3 to DP adapter which also comes with a method of charging the laptop (power throughput). I was curious as if anyone knew of one of these adapters as I am unable to find one myself. Thanks, --Mince

After some digging around on the internet, all I could find in terms of TB monitors that suited my needs was the LG 34UM95 - this is however a TB2 monitor, so I won't be able to daisy-chain them. I'm ideally after an ultrawide 1440p TB3 monitor, no bigger than 34". A simple enough wish, but bloody hell are they good at hide and seek. If anyone knows of a company that sells any, or is developing one for release within the next year or two, then please tell me. Thanks for any help

Hi LTT Forum. I will soon be testing and deploying a small fleet of fully specced (minus the £1000 SSD upgrade[fuck you apple]) 2016 Macbook Pro's for use as hire machines with the AV firm i work for. It will be my job to thoroughly test these machines before deployment and to maintain them in the future. Basically i thought this posed a great opportunity to offer others a thread in which to ask very specific questions about them that require hands on experience, which, understandably is not something everyone can access, given the stupid price of these things. So I'll update soon when they arrive and i'm sure ill make a topic about them at some point but i will be open to any and all requests for testing on these machines for people thinking of buying one. Thanks for being such a great community DnFx

Hello Community! I'm Dev and after doing some research for the last two weeks, I decided to come to this place, as the level of knowledge and engagement seems to be to high standards! I run a little design studio with three people (plus freelance) doing lots of video recently. Right now, we have 3 Mac Pro, two iMacs, a Mac Mini (for administration) and several Macbook Pro. All Macs are connected via 2xGb LCAP and a Synology DS1812+ equipped with 6 WD Reds serves also over bonded ports. The Synology did nothing but file sharing so far and it did well. Since upgrading to Gigabit-Network we've been able to edit 1080p on the NAS via NFS-mounts. Because our customers demand it, we did all shooting and editing in 4K recently, ending up with full SSDs and some external Thunderbolt SSDs we shuffle around. In a nutshell – a total disaster. It was easy to stumble across the Qnap TVS-871T (and similiar) which offers a super fast connection that would enable us to edit 4K over the network and get back to our approved structures and routines for handling stuff and backups. But with customers demanding more and more quality while simultaneously increasing the pressure on pricing, we can't put down 3-5 grand for the Qnap solution. But, we have some hardware around. And while I did my own builds in the past, I would appreciate your help here: Is it possible to build a file server with Thunderbolt-Networking? The goal should be a server that can deliver decent speed to at least two machines over Thunderbolt to edit 4K. As we have a lot of space on the Synology, we could use it for backup and the new NAS for actual work only. That takes away the need for a backup on the new NAS itself or even for redundancy. Would JBOD be an option here? Parts we have around: Intel Xeon E5-1620 V2 Intel i5 6600K 32GB ECC 1600 MHz DDR3 empty cases PSUs So, a build based on a server mainboard with the E5 and the ECC RAM suggests itself, but I think there will be almost no mainboards for that with Thunderbolt built in (or are there?). It would be okay to do a build with the i5 if the CPU would suffice for the purpose. Can anyone recommend a build for our needs? Mainboards that have working Thunderbolt networking. And which OS to use (we are all macOS and Linux guys but wouldn't mind using Windows if it meets our needs). Thanks for your help! Dev

I am currently working on making a little studio for my rig, and i am trying tho get an audio interface, and the one that seems to peak my interest is focursite's Clarett8PreX. Unfortunately This audio interface is thunderbolt only, and most mobo's obviously don't come with thunderbolt ports. I have read around and found that apparently, not all thunderbolt pcie cards work with all mobos and vice, versa. So i was curious if there was an expander that worked with the GA-Z87-D3HP. I also have a MSI Z97 PC MATE, however I'm not a big fan of it, I prefer the z87, but if anyone knows of a thunderbolt pcie card that would work with any of those mobo's feel free to tell me! i know that it has the light-pipe/adat ports on the back of it, can i take advantage of that at all? GA-Z87-D3HP http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z87X-UD3H-rev-1x#ov MSI Z97 PC MATE http://us.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97-PC-Mate.html#hero-overview

Hi Everyone, So, I've done some research and was hoping someone could clarify this for me; There are a number of z170/z270 Motherboards with an USB-c/Thunderbolt 3 connector. (e.g. Asus z170 premium, Gigabyte Z170x-ultra Gaming). The Asus z170 premium for example has no 'display port in' connection, the z170x-ultra has a DP-in connection on I/O. Does this mean that I can not use a TB3 motherboard to send a video signal from a graphics card in a pci-e slot, unless it has some sort of 'injection' into the motherboard. (Like the Asus THunderboltEX2 cards on some older ASUS boards do for example). I was hoping to build a TIny ITX pc with a ASRock Z270 ITX motherboard, which has thunderbolt 3, but since this board has no DP-in connector, I'm not sure if I can transport the videosignal from my GPU to the monitor I want to use (LG 34UC98, yes I;m aware I need a TB3 to TB2 adapter as well!) Is there anyone who can explain this for me? Has the video injection into the thunderbolt stream, if you will, been updated to something new, eliminating the need for a GPU DP->MB DP-in in newer motherboards? Hopefully someone can shed some light on the sitatuation, because otherwise the TIny-PC connected with 1 wire idea is not possible. Thanks! Pieke

Didn't know if this would qualify as network (but didn't think so). As the title implies, I am looking for a way to get thunderbolt 3 to the other side of my house without paying 800$ for a optical thunderbolt 3 cable.

Recently I had purchased a Razer Blade Stealth which has been my daily driver for school, editing, graphic design for just over 3 months. I do have a gaming PC at home which has been working fantastically for me. I have been looking in to buying a 1440p 144hz monitor that is very specific, and it sees that I have only found one monitor that satisfies everything I need (more about that here). I have determined my best course of action is not to seek a monitor that satisfies everything I need, but rather, to somehow output through displayport from my Razer Blade Stealth. The ports on the Razer Blade Stealth are 1x Thunderbolt 3, 1 x HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0. This has been difficult given I want to still be able to charge my laptop while I am displaying to that monitor. That means I am limited to 2 USB 3.0 and 1 HDMI 2.0 OR finding some kind of adapter for DP through Thunderbolt 3 while still allowing me to charge my laptop. If anyone knows of any way I can run a 1440p 144hz display off of this using displayport, with the specified requirements that would be great.

Hello everyone, Am I the only one who thinks the ideal setup would be a quad core, thin and light laptop to carry around, preferably without an internal gpu to accomodate a larger battery and lower the price tag; paired with an external gpu dock via thunderbolt 3? Apparently I am because I don't think any manufacturer has released such a laptop, or is there some mythical beast I don't know about? I know there are laptops like the Razer Blade Stealth and the XPS 13 but they all have dual cores with hyperthreading. And with more games taking advantage of 4 processing cores I think these won't last very long. Then you could say why not buy the normal Razer Blade or an XPS 15, well they have internal gpu's and I'd rather trade an internal gpu for a lower price tag and longer battery life. So have you guys seen a thin and light, portable, 1080p (again to keep cost down, save battery life and i think 4k doesn't make sense on a laptop screen), thunderbolt3, afordable laptop, post the link below! Thanks a lot and enjoy your day!

I apologize for the dumb question, but wouldn't it be possible to create a display with a built-in GPU and then just connect it to a computer using Thunderbolt? I remember that some early 4K displays were basically 2 displays in one and required 2 cables to connect them to your graphics card or cards. Why not take 2 ARM GPUs, connect one to each side of a screen, then connect them to a computer via a Thunderbolt? The built-in GPU(s) could be used mainly for playing 8K video or light gaming. With multi-adapter support on Vulkan or Directx12, you could use the computer's on-board graphics and/or a discreet graphics card for more serious gaming. That way, you could connect almost any computer to an 8K screen and it would work.

Are there any cheap razor core alternatives about there that are thunder bolt 3?

I bought an ASRock pcie thunderbolt card to try to get my 2011 apple monitor that uses thunderbolt 1 to work with my pc, but when i plugged everything in and turned it on it still doesn't work. I've made sure the power is connected, the displayport cord is plugged into my gpu and the card, but it doesn't even look like the monitor is on. Is it even possible to get a thunderbolt display to work with a pc? This was more of a test to see if it would work for the computer I'm building, because I have the monitor so I want to use it if possible. The specs of my current computer are down below: I don't have an exact parts list but here are the ones I know for sure: i5-6600 MSI B150 GAMING M3 MSI r9 390 8GB ram samsung 850 evo 256gb 1 tb hard drive https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815548001 is the thunderbolt card

Hi LTT SKIP THIS IF YOU WANT... This is my first post here. Im 14 and I need a new PC. Rn I have an Elitebook 8460p with an i5 2520m and intel hd 3000. It has only 4gb of 1333 ddr3 ram and I cant play games on it. I play dirt 3 almost every day and it is on ultra low 720p at 30fps. Gta 5 is ubplayable as almost every game. Before the 8460p I had a pc with a celeron e3200 i think and a 5450hd and 4gb of ddr2 800mhz so this laptop at 200€ was the best i could do. Now after owning this 8460p for a year I want a new pc/laptop. I go to my granparents and friends every weekend and usually play games there or at vacations i bring my laptop so I lets say need portability. My plans were: 1. G4560 and a 1060 3gb 2400mhz 8gb ddr4 and that build would be around 450€ right now 2. My 8460p with an exp gdc and a 1060 3gb right now 3. NEXT YEAR Dell 7567 with a 1050 ti at 750€ new 4. A cheap i5 laptop WITH A TB3 port for the cheapest tb3 egpu enclosure ALSO NEXT YEAR So what would be the best option here Rn I have 300€ but ill sell my moms hp 635 for 125€ and do a g4560 build or Suffer with my 8460p with hd 3000 for a year and buy a laptop with a dgpu or an egpu Please help me! If you have more questions ill reply! ☺

Hii, I have a legion y720 laptop which has thunderbolt 3 port,specs are Cpu:7700hq, 16gb ram It has gtx 1060 in it. I generally do solid works,CATIA and other cad softwares. we are doing to make a car in our project,so I want to go serious in designing So I am planing to buy a used quadro 4000 and gdc egpu adaptor for cad, for performance. Instead of connecting to mpcie slot I want to connect the actor with thunderbolt 3 to HDMI and a HDMI cable (in pictures) to connect the egpu setup,my question is will I able to use the graphic card like this. Bcz it will be difficult to maintain a cable hanging from laptop , moreover it's a new laptop . Thanks in advance ,any suggestion is helpful Please do reply your knowledge and experience With regards Balaji

Intel Newsroom Original Link Linus should be excited!!! Please! A future with just 1 port type is what every 90's kid has dreamed of. This will be great for laptop and mobile integration. On the desktop side, it'll be interesting to see how this affects motherboard offerings next year. Hopefully, this means companies will quit ignoring Type-C (Microsoft, smh) and offer more, single type ports (Apple, smh). This is great news! I'm glad they aren't trying to make it an exclusive like 4k Netflix and the other integration bs they've tried before. Hopefully, this will push the entire mobile oriented market towards similarity of offerings. Additional articles: Wired The Verge