StarTekh Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Gigabyte : AMD TRX40 DESIGNARE Motherboard with Direct 16+3 Phases Infineon Digital VRM, Fins-Array Heatsink, Dual Intel LAN, 4 PCIe 4.0 M.2 with Thermal Guards, Bundled GC-Titan Ridge Add-In Card and AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor, Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax,120dB SNR AMP-UP Audio Is anyone running this Build ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Bone Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 7 hours ago, StarTekh said: Gigabyte : AMD TRX40 DESIGNARE Motherboard with Direct 16+3 Phases Infineon Digital VRM, Fins-Array Heatsink, Dual Intel LAN, 4 PCIe 4.0 M.2 with Thermal Guards, Bundled GC-Titan Ridge Add-In Card and AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor, Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax,120dB SNR AMP-UP Audio Is anyone running this Build ! Close. I have the Gigabyte X399 DESIGNARE EX. FANTASTIC board. The only thing is that AMD-based motherboards do not seem to support Thunderbolt 3, and you cannot add anything to add it, and Thunderbolt 3 audio interfaces are insanely fast, at up to 40 gigabits/sec transfer supported by the protocol. When last I looked, only Intel motherboards had the potential for Thunderbolt 3. Bob Bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaGary Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Robert Bone said: ....The only thing is that AMD-based motherboards do not seem to support Thunderbolt 3, and you cannot add anything to add it... Things have changed recently: I am putting the finishing touches on my AMD build. It's a Ryzen 3950X (16-core) on an ASRock X570 Creator motherboard. This Creator motherboard has *native* Thunderbolt-3 and is unique in that regard among the X570 chipset boards. I had also ordered and returned the ASRock X570 Taichi board. That one uses an Add-In-Card for Thunderbolt, and provides the necessary header. Among the Threadripper TRX40 chipset boards, the Gigabyte Designare is the one that offers support for a Thunderbolt-3 Add-In-Card, as @StarTekh shows in his post . These three boards are ones that I had considered before landing where I am. There may be others, but I don't have any other info to offer. Also, keep in mind that Thunderbolt-3's advantage for audio is in the low latency of the PCIe/Thunderbolt protocol, not in its bandwidth. Tbolt-1,2,3 all have the same latency potency, and nothing in the track count of an audio interface challenges the bandwidth of Tbolt-1 . (At 96k/24bit it would take over 4000 channels to fill 10Gbits/sec. ) Thunderbolt shines in its flexibility of usage for audio interfaces, SSD's, and displays. On a side note, the DisplayPort protocol is fenced off in Tbolt-2 and Tbolt-3, so the data transfer capability for PCIe traffic like SSD is 11Gbits in Tbolt-2 and 22Gbits in Tbolt-3. That's why you see a ceiling of around 2800MBytes/sec for M.2 SSD's attached via Tbolt-3. Edited February 20, 2020 by MediaGary added attribution 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarTekh Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 Guy's thanks for your reply's .. Im 8086k with a z390a Asus with Giga rev. 2.0 card .. runs perfect all day every day 0error : But do a lotta hardware support and amd comes up often now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarTekh Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 There might be plenty of AMD motherboards available with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, but it's only now that one has been officially certified by Intel: the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaGary Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 I wonder what the certification means as a practical/operational matter. For example: some things will hot plug and some won't in the non-certified implementations works in Windows but has hackintosh limitations for the non-certified some kind of per-board-manufactured fee must be paid to Intel despite the new royalty-free status all USB and SSD peripheral stuff works, but DisplayPort stuff doesn't work Any ideas about the differences? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarTekh Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 Support for 6 devices for starters .. here a list of X570's issues : AM4 : AMD X570 *1: Only three TB3 devices can be detected. *2 : Some USB 3.2 Type-C devices will cause system reboot after wake up from S3/S4. *3 : Cannot light up the TB3 monitor after wake up from S3/S4, re-plug the cable is needed. *4 : Does not support Thunderbolt 3 PCIe graphics card box X570 Taichi (ATX) X570 Extreme4 WiFi ax (ATX) X570 Extreme4 (ATX) X570 Phantom Gaming X (ATX) X570 Steel Legend (ATX) X570 Steel Legend WiFi ax (ATX) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarTekh Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 WE better have a chatt befor you go AMD sir ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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