x570/b550 thunderbolt 3 options

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Hi all,

I currently have a Ryzen 3700x in an MSI gaming pro carbon x370 motherboard. It's pretty mucha gaming PC at the moment but I have read that AMD now supports thunderbolt 3 and it would be great to be able to hook my thunderbolt 2 (Apollo Twin) audio interface up to my windows PC.

From what I could find there is only 1 asrock mobo that needed an AIC card which someone had had problems using my interface with.

Is there more than 1 motherboard supported currently? Are there more in the pipeline?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Bit of a bump!

It looks like there is actually a mobo now out which has thunderbolt 3 on board - the Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3. I wanted something bigger than ITX ideally though and this has weird CPU mounting options.

Is anyone aware of anything that's on the horizon? (Google is failing me).
 
I've been doing some more research.

It looks like the below motherboard has thunderbolt headers:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...g-amd-am4-b550-atx-motherboard-mb-6fb-as.html

What would I need to get thunderbolt onto this? Some sort of add on card? In general I'm guessing there's no PCI card I can just plonk in my existing motherboard?

If not are there any other motherboards with thunderbolt headers out there worth looking at?

Edit - there's also this:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asro...4-x570-chipset-atx-motherboard-mb-16m-ak.html

That's getting close to the expensive board above when considering the price of a thunderbolt card too though. Any benefit over the b550?
 
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Thanks very much for finding this! I’m not sure how I missed it.

In the end I ordered the Asus B550-e and thunderbolt card which came in at about £320. Just got it all set up and it seems to be doing the trick.

To be honest, I don’t really like the look of that gigabyte motherboard (I mean physically) but it seems like a good alternative.
 
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Thanks very much for finding this! I’m not sure how I missed it.

In the end I ordered the Asus B550-e and thunderbolt card which came in at about £320. Just got it all set up and it seems to be doing the trick.

To be honest, I don’t really like the look of that gigabyte motherboard (I mean physically) but it seems like a good alternative.
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Have you checked to see what lanes will be used when you add the card ? I.e off the m.2 slots etc

Did you go for gigabyte Thunderbolt add in card as only one that features Titan Ridge chipset ?

Aye board isn't the nicest but features dual Gen 4 m.2 and dual Gen 4 GPU slots along with dual Thunderbolt ports
 
I believe the primary m2 uses gen4 and secondary uses gen 3. I have an m2 in both slots and the difference is unnoticeable (to me).

I'm using the Asus ThunderboltEX 3-TR which does indeed feature the Titan ridge chip.

Yea, the on board thunderbolt ports would have been nice. I would have considered it if I had not already bought and installed the new board before seeing your post. :)
 
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I believe the primary m2 uses gen4 and secondary uses gen 3. I have an m2 in both slots and the difference is unnoticeable (to me).

I'm using the Asus ThunderboltEX 3-TR which does indeed feature the Titan ridge chip.

Yea, the on board thunderbolt ports would have been nice. I would have considered it if I had not already bought and installed the new board before seeing your post. :)
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how have you set it up on your board since it uses or requires full x4 bandwidth ? and you've mentioned you've got dual m.2 installed .

believe oc3d did a good break down on the lanes between E and F version of Strix

worth a read on your set up- or you'll be running stuff at half speed

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews...strix_b550-f_gaming_wifi_and_strix-e_review/3
 
I just have it plugged into my bottom PCIe slot with the supplied cable connected to the thunderbolt header on my mobo. You can supply extra power and a usb 2 connection via a mobo header but as I am not planning to use either of those options I haven't bothered.

Working fine with my apollo twin.
 
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I just have it plugged into my bottom PCIe slot with the supplied cable connected to the thunderbolt header on my mobo. You can supply extra power and a usb 2 connection via a mobo header but as I am not planning to use either of those options I haven't bothered.

Working fine with my apollo twin.
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scratch that. running full speed!
 
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