[NEW BUILD] THREADRIPPER + THUNDERBOLT

[DefensivePepe]

Hello everyone. 

 

I am planing to purchase and update my rig this week but I am extremely doubtfull with reference to my CPU. My plan is to purchase a 3960x + Asus Zenith 2 Extreme. Despite this fact, and due to its costs, I have seen a good deal in a 2950x + Zenith Extreme. My main question is wether or not can I install thunderbolt via a  GC Titan card or something similar. I have read that it is possible and not almost in the same article. 

 

Then my other option is to keep the same CPU but move to a Gigabyte Designare but, honestly, I hate the looks of this mobo. It is well priced and everything is great while you are not looking at it. It is a big problem IMO that this is the only Threadripper and Thunderbolt 3 compatible mobo. 

 

The 3rd option (i have been thinking a lot) is a i9 10900 + Rampage 6 Extreme Omega. I like this idea a lot but I am worried as there is no much to update in comparison to Threadripper 3. I will be stuck with 10 cores but I will get Thubderbolt 3 (and I will save some cash as I can keep my CPU waterblock). 

 

I am not sure at all but I need to take a decission. Also, in case I have to lose thunderbolt 3 compatibility, how would it be to transfer data to a Macbook Pro 16" and a windows laptop with USB 3.0 Type C and Thunderbolt? I am not sure if I understood it right but I think a Thunderbolt 3 port is also a USB 3.1 Gen1. Is it true?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Kilrah]

You wouldn't be able to use a Gigabyte card on an Asus board, they're design specific. The board you choose needs to be built with the TB expansion facility and you need to use the matching add-on card.

 

6 minutes ago, DefensivePepe said:

how would it be to transfer data to a Macbook Pro 16" and a windows laptop with USB 3.0 Type C and Thunderbolt?

Network?

 

7 minutes ago, DefensivePepe said:

I think a Thunderbolt 3 port is also a USB 3.1 Gen1. Is it true?

Gen 1 or 2, but yeah it's compatible with any USB peripheral.

[fuzz0r]

What is your usecase?

[DefensivePepe]

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You wouldn't be able to use a Gigabyte card on an Asus board, they're design specific. The board you choose needs to be built with the TB expansion facility and you need to use the matching add-on card.

 

Network?

 

Gen 1 or 2, but yeah it's compatible with any USB peripheral.

Well that´s obvious but I have seen many cases were GC Titan works perfectly on non compatible boards, the 5.1 Mac Pro, for instance. I want to connect everything by cable and I think it is easier to me to use a USB rather than an old RJ45 and adjust the network. Of course I thought about it but I am considering a long run computer to last for the next 5 years or so and I want to add as many new compatible technologies as possible. That´s why I am so worried about Intel, no PCIe 4.0, no upgrade... 

 

8 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

What is your usecase?

Many different scenarios, work, gaming, media, photo and video editing, maybe even a home server. Of course, I know, I can go to a X570 with a Ryzen 7 or 9 and it will do but I want to be in the next level, it is 100% subjective.

[Kilrah]

2 minutes ago, DefensivePepe said:

rather than an old RJ45 and adjust the network.

Direct TB3 connection creates a network that you have to configure too, and from what I can read between a Mac and Windows you need to reconfigure it every time you unplug it. Not any neater.

[DefensivePepe]

7 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Direct TB3 connection creates a network that you have to configure too, and from what I can read between a Mac and Windows you need to reconfigure it every time you unplug it. Not any neater.

Yeah I know, it is a kind of pain as well but at least it gives me more confidance the fact of having it. Maybe after a while I prefer to trasnfer everything via an external HDD as I did while I was in college but I may need TB3 in the future and I am trying to do my best to have it now. 

[DefensivePepe]

Sorry, twice