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I am wondering if you could power every thing that Linus uses in this (

) video over one or two optical thunderbolts wires? If it isn't possible what would you have to do to make it work?

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why

 

 

 

if you are looking to do something like this in your garage or something, I can help you with that. 

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optical thunderbolt?

Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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optical thunderbolt?

linus did a review of one of the really shady "usb 3.Optical" cables. the same company has a thunderbolt cable as well.

 

its basicly converting the signal into an optical signal, and converting it back on the other side, to have it go like... 100ft.

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linus did a review of one of the really shady "usb 3.Optical" cables. the same company has a thunderbolt cable as well.

 

its basicly converting the signal into an optical signal, and converting it back on the other side, to have it go like... 100ft.

ah, well if that is the case, Then none of that stuff would be able to be powered.

Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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ah, well if that is the case, Then none of that stuff would be able to be powered.

i'm guessing he could do thunderbolt cables for the monitors, and one of the USB ones for the peripherals, but he might as well just spend that money on getting a quiet pc...

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i'm guessing he could do thunderbolt cables for the monitors, and one of the USB ones for the peripherals, but he might as well just spend that money on getting a quiet pc...

yeah, normal thunderbolt cables may be able to do it, but that would also be dependent on if the monitor in question even supports power over thunderbolt.

Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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yeah, normal thunderbolt cables may be able to do it, but that would also be dependent on if the monitor in question even supports power over thunderbolt.

you dont power it over the thunderbolt tho, and the manufacturer of the long cables strongly recommends putting at least a powered hub after the cable, because they dont transmit power very well.

 

linus's review video actually had the cable go into a USB3.0 dock, which may be OP's best bet. (but thunderbolt, and multiple, because bandwidth)

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I meant like information and data steams for the monitors and the peripherals I know that fiber optic wires don't support power.

probably, but how far away and where exactly are you intending to set this up? Might be a cheaper/better way. 

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