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In order for the card to work, there must be a Thunderbolt post (pinout?) on the MB. The two I have (GA-Z170X-UD5-TH, GA-Z170X-Designare) do not have these posts. No place to plug in the card. I believe the purpose of the card is to add TB3 to MB's that don't already support it. These particular MB's already do.

Can you please check on page 36 of the manual. What are they getting at then?
Edit: Check out the three images uploaded. It seems to show pin headers for it, and support.

So... as I said, I suspect it will work, and its been left out on the list as a mistake?

I think they said something on the lines of that the boards already have an alpine chipset on the boards already. but you can try, I just want to spend $80 to have something I cant use.
 
I think they said something on the lines of that the boards already have an alpine chipset on the boards already. but you can try, I just want to spend $80 to have something I cant use.

If I had one, I'd try it. Just can't find them in the US.
 
Hi, has anyone had succes with adjusting the brightness? One of the things I really like when using Mac is to control the screen brightness through the keyboard.
 
Hi, has anyone had success with adjusting the brightness? One of the things I really like when using Mac is to control the screen brightness through the keyboard.

I has, but I use Magic Keyboard.

 

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I think they said something on the lines of that the boards already have an alpine chipset on the boards already. but you can try, I just want to spend $80 to have something I cant use.

I'm not convinced, otherwise they wouldn't have built that tb3 header there and market it so, as per my screenshots.
 
If only there was some way...
I might pick one up just to try because of wolfie81 said, the gigabyte z170x designaire does have a TB3 header on the motherboard, which got me thinking why would they put a header on the board when theres' nothing to use it with.

Another thing. If the MB itself has an alpine chipset on it already wouldn't the alpine chipset on the add on card confuse the chipset on the MB?
 
I might pick one up just to try because of wolfie81 said, the gigabyte z170x designaire does have a TB3 header on the motherboard, which got me thinking why would they put a header on the board when there's nothing to use it with.

Another thing. If the MB itself has an alpine chipset on it already wouldn't the alpine chipset on the add on card confuse the chipset on the MB?

Don't confuse TB headers and connectors. If the board has TB connectors, such as the Designaire board, it has a TB chip, and indeed there are TB drivers in the resource page for that board.

In the case of a TB 'header', that is slightly different. The headers are (Were?) internal only and allowed for an add-in controller card to connect to the system, but the actual TB connectors were provided by the add-in controller card itself.

Having 2 controllers, i.e., one built-in and one add-in should work together, but may have slightly different functionality levels. With a built-in controller, you get access to the low level settings in the BIOS (I'm not sure if this can be done with the add-in ones), and they may have slightly different routing for graphics too. This is where you may or may not have the option to route graphics output through the controller and then connect a TB enabled display. Some of the earlier add-in cards showed this in the advertising material but it didn't work that well in all cases.
 
I think I saw a thb_c (5 Pin) on the motherboard before I left for Asia. I'll be flying back to Taipei tomorrow and I'll pick one up.
 
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