Posted October 27, 2016 Can you add a thunderbolt port to any motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Just now, militant83 said: Can you add a thunderbolt port to any motherboard? You could get a expansion card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Author 1 minute ago, Unexas. said: You could get a expansion card. Right, that's what I meant. Are they compatible will all motherboards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Just now, militant83 said: Right, that's what I meant. Are they compatible will all motherboards? As long as you have the expansion slot fro it it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, militant83 said: Right, that's what I meant. Are they compatible will all motherboards? yes. A pcie expansion card will fit in any pcie expansion slot (so long as the bandwidth of the slot is at or above the bandwidth of the card) ******If you paste in text into your post, please click the "remove formatting" button for night theme users.****** CPU- Intel 6700k OC to 4.69 Ghz GPU- NVidia Geforce GTX 970 (MSI) RAM- 16gb DDR4 2400 SSD-2x500gb samsung 850 EVO(SATA) Raid 0 HDD- 2tb Seagate Case- H440 Red w/ custom lighting Motherboard - MSI Z170 Gaming A OS- Windows 10 Mouse- Razer Naga Epic Chroma, Final Mouse 2016 turney proKeyboard- Corsair k70 Cherry MX brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 it is not as simple as adding the ThunderBolt card in the mobo needs to have a TB header - Thunderbolt™ add-in card connector you need to check your motherboard's manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 21 minutes ago, militant83 said: Can you add a thunderbolt port to any motherboard? Its not as simple as just having a PCIe extension card. There are two connections to be made with cards like those, 1 that goes into your PCIe slot, and 1 additional wire to be connected elsewhere on your motherboard to an additional thunderbolt specific header. A lot of the skylake boards have these on them (especially the Z series boards) but if you're running older components that may not be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Author 8 minutes ago, Zyndo said: Its not as simple as just having a PCIe extension card. There are two connections to be made with cards like those, 1 that goes into your PCIe slot, and 1 additional wire to be connected elsewhere on your motherboard to an additional thunderbolt specific header. A lot of the skylake boards have these on them (especially the Z series boards) but if you're running older components that may not be the case. I don't have a board yet. I'm in the planning phase of my build. I was looking at the MSI X99 Pro carbon board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Just now, militant83 said: I don't have a board yet. I'm in the planning phase of my build. I was looking at the MSI X99 Pro carbon board. why not just buy a board that comes with built in thunderbolt then? like an X99-Designare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 Author 2 minutes ago, Zyndo said: why not just buy a board that comes with built in thunderbolt then? like an X99-Designare? I had originally looked at that one...I was being picky and trying to do a red and black color theme...but I could always do blue and black if going that route Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2016 4 minutes ago, militant83 said: I had originally looked at that one...I was being picky and trying to do a red and black color theme...but I could always do blue and black if going that route nawh if you want black and red you should probably get black and red. I just don't see a thunderbolt on board connector for that motherboard. black and red X99 with thunderbolt headers seem to be the territory of Asus for now. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-X99-GAMING/overview/ http://pcpartpicker.com/product/L6rcCJ/asus-motherboard-rogstrixx99gaming pretty much all gigabyte boards support thunderbolt in some way as well, but the only black/red ones seem to be from before the time of broadwell-E, so you may need a BIOS update in order to use them. but they're worth checking out as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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