Setting up a thunderbolt hub

[Wolf_Lbh]

For starters I am setting up this hub for use in a multi-monitor setup where one large monitor is near the tower for gaming and ect and a smaller monitor is away from the tower for office type work. The other monitor is about 30 feet away so I want to use the thunderbolt optical cable to cover the distance and then a thunderbolt hub for all the devices at the workstation.

Cable: www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSTC496

Issues: My mobo is the asus maximus extreme vIII and it only has a thunderbolt 3 slot and the cable is thunderbolt 2, so can a thunderbolt 2 cable work with a thunderbolt 3 port?

Also I'm having trouble finding a decent thunderbolt hub to use. I need it to offer:
3x usb 3.0 ports (keyboard, mouse, flash drive)
Mic and headphone port (3.5s for my headphones and mic)
1x displayport port. (monitor)

For some reason none of the hubs seem to offer full sized displayport ports and I'm worried using a minidisplayport to displayport or thunderbolt to displayport adapter won't be able to supply my full resolution to my monitor.

So if anyone could let me know if there is even a cord that will work with my thunderbolt 3 setup and if a hub with all the features I need exists that would be great. Thanks for the help.

Also last question, as this is a digital to stereo output/mic input that makes this hub a dac so is it decent quality or is it going to clip my music because of impedance or something?

[Curufinwe_wins]

2 minutes ago, Wolf_Lbh said:

For starters I am setting up this hub for use in a multi-monitor setup where one large monitor is near the tower for gaming and ect and a smaller monitor is away from the tower for office type work. The other monitor is about 30 feet away so I want to use the thunderbolt optical cable to cover the distance and then a thunderbolt hub for all the devices at the workstation.

Cable: www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSTC496

Issues: My mobo is the asus maximus extreme vIII and it only has a thunderbolt 3 slot and the cable is thunderbolt 2, so can a thunderbolt 2 cable work with a thunderbolt 3 port?

Also I'm having trouble finding a decent thunderbolt hub to use. I need it to offer:
3x usb 3.0 ports (keyboard, mouse, flash drive)
Mic and headphone port (3.5s for my headphones and mic)
1x displayport port. (monitor)

For some reason none of the hubs seem to offer full sized displayport ports and I'm worried using a minidisplayport to displayport or thunderbolt to displayport adapter won't be able to supply my full resolution to my monitor.

So if anyone could let me know if there is even a cord that will work with my thunderbolt 3 setup and if a hub with all the features I need exists that would be great. Thanks for the help.

Also last question, as this is a digital to stereo output/mic input that makes this hub a dac so is it decent quality or is it going to clip my music because of impedance or something?

Thunderbolt 2 and 3 do not share similar connectors. Thunderbolt 3 hubs aren't really out yet. That said, mini displayport carries 100% of all the displayport resolution so you don't need to worry about that.

[Wolf_Lbh]

10 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Thunderbolt 2 and 3 do not share similar connectors. Thunderbolt 3 hubs aren't really out yet. That said, mini displayport carries 100% of all the displayport resolution so you don't need to worry about that.

okay, so 3 questions then:
1) Can I connect a thunderbolt 2 cable to a Maximus Extreme VIII? Because it only mentions having a thunderbolt 3 port and nothing about thunderbolt 2.
2) Is corning/anyone going to make/already make a Thunderbolt 3 optical cable?
3) What thunderbolt 2 hubs have 3x usb 3.0 ports, 1x minidisplayport or full displayport ports, and Mic+headphone 3.5 ports?

[Wolf_Lbh]

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[slickster100]

Wolf  - you will have to wait for the Kanex thunderbolt 3 (type-c) to Thunderbolt 2 (mDP) adapter to become available.  It was shown at CES 2016 and works with the Corning Thunderbolt  optical cable.  https://www.kanex.com/thunderbolt3/  

You would then need a Thunderbolt 2 dock which there are many http://www.macworld.com/article/2920233/laptop-accessories/thunderbolt-2-docks-roundup-connecting-multiple-devices-to-your-mac-laptop-has-never-been-easier.html

 

Not sure about your 2nd question.  Your guess is as good as mine.

[Wolf_Lbh]

12 minutes ago, slickster100 said:

Wolf  - you will have to wait for the Kanex thunderbolt 3 (type-c) to Thunderbolt 2 (mDP) adapter to become available.  It was shown at CES 2016 and works with the Corning Thunderbolt  optical cable.  https://www.kanex.com/thunderbolt3/  

You would then need a Thunderbolt 2 dock which there are many http://www.macworld.com/article/2920233/laptop-accessories/thunderbolt-2-docks-roundup-connecting-multiple-devices-to-your-mac-laptop-has-never-been-easier.html

 

Not sure about your 2nd question.  Your guess is as good as mine.

Think I'll just wait for thunderbolt 3 optical cables and hubs to become a thing. Who knows when the adapter will get made so waiting for that may be as fast as waiting for a better setup and also it is like $500+ for a thunderbolt 2 optical cable and hub so why wait for an adapter to buy an inferior setup for such an expensive price when I will just be updating it asap.