Asus Thunderbolt Card

[ThoseDamnBadgers]

I recently saw Linus' personal rig update number 5 and noticed he used these Asus thunderbolt PCIE cards. Here - https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboard-Accessories/ThunderboltEX_II/

 

I have been looking around online and want to buy one, but I have a problem. On the Asus website it lists support for selected Asus motherboards and no other brand. I have been trying to see if other brands would be supported with no luck.

 

I currently have an MSI board (Z97 Gaming 5). I would really like the thunderbolt PCIE card to work with it. So I was wondering if this card words only with Asus or other as well? and if anyone has tried it with success on other manufacturers boards?

 

Thanks for your help in advance guys

[jakkuh_t]

http://learn.thunderbolttechnology.com/ has a list of motherboards.

[DaltonM]

Anything before thunderbolt 3 is pretty useless, as USB 3 is pretty much as fast. TB2 can't run external GPU or anything like that so there's really no point. 

[ThoseDamnBadgers]

It is pretty useful to me, I run a studio and most high end audio interfaces we have are thunderbolt only. So would be great to be able to get thunderbolt.

[Stardar1]

2 minutes ago, DaltonM said:

Anything before thunderbolt 3 is pretty useless, as USB 3 is pretty much as fast. TB2 can't run external GPU or anything like that so there's really no point. 

TB2 (when paired with TB2 drives) leaves USB 3.1 in the dust. 

 

TB2 drives are expensive, but for external storage it is only beat by hot-swappable SSDs

 

EDIT: and TB3 of course