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I've been fighting with the devices a bit. I find it takes me a few restarts to get things to show up. That was the case prior as well. So it's not really unusual. I find it odd that my Black magic card can hot swap though. It seems to work fine no matter what. I have the SANLink3 T1 attached as well, which basically allows me to get 10Gbe line from my QNAP NAS storage system. This is very finicky. It takes a bit after restart for it to be recognized. It's odd as well, I just recently installed it with the drivers and at first the system didn't see it at all but I left it alone overnight and it was just working in the morning. Not sure what that's about. I feel like it's a bit of a crap shoot from day to day and I can't rely on this Hackintosh at all. I wish I was a bit more savy and understood thing so I could fix them. Not sure it's even possible to have a reliable Hackintosh. I'll probably cave and go buy a new iMac pro if I can't this working more reliably.
I'm in the same boat. I own qnap NAS with TB3 connection. Eventhough I have external driver working with Alpine Ridge Card. QNAP is not seeing it.
 
Hi

Can anyone help me.

Gigabyte did not have Z370-UD5 motherboard at this time.

Because I require to have 2 gigabit ethernet port for my rig to run linux or FreeBSD. Besides MACos.

One of the aorus motherboard have intel and killer ethernet ports.

Right now the only option that I have is the Z370XP SLI which have only one ethernet port or the Aorus motherboard.

Now that Gigabyte have two versions of GC-Alpine Ridge thunderbolt 3 card. Version 1 and 2.

I enquire the shop, that they only have version 1 not version 2.

Which version should I get for the GC-Alpine Ridge for Z370.

Does the Asus thunderbolt 3 card works with Gigabyte motherboard?
 
Now that Gigabyte have two versions of GC-Alpine Ridge thunderbolt 3 card. Version 1 and 2. I enquire the shop, that they only have version 1 not version 2. Which version should I get for the GC-Alpine Ridge for Z370.

Version 1 uses the DSL6540 B-step, and version 2 uses the DSL6540 C-step. The differences don't seem to be documented anywhere. They both appear to be compatible with the same set of motherboards. I would take version 1 if version 2 is not available.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-ALPINE-RIDGE-rev-10#ov
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-ALPINE-RIDGE-rev-20#ov

Does the Asus thunderbolt 3 card works with Gigabyte motherboard?
The GC-ALPINE RIDGE has two DisplayPort inputs, but the ASUS ThunderboltEX 3 only has one DisplayPort input, so I would choose the GC-ALPINE RIDGE. The GC-ALPINE RIDGE has a header cable that fits two different sizes of Thunderbolt header, but the ASUS only fits one size, so the ASUS might not work with all motherboards (I guess you could make your own cable...).

Maybe try the ASRock Thunderbolt 3 AIC. It at least has two DisplayPort inputs (though different sizes...).

There's also a MSI ThunderboltM3 but I think MSI doesn't plan to release it.


Titan Ridge has been announced. It's basically still just Thunderbolt 3 with two new features. It adds support for DisplayPort 1.4. New Thunderbolt 3 devices that use the Titan Ridge controller will have the ability to use the Thunderbolt 3 ports as USB-C inputs (probably USB 2.0/3.1 + 2 lanes of DisplayPort 1.4 and USB 2.0 + 4 lanes of DisplayPort 1.4). Such devices can use Thunderbolt 3 with computers that have Thunderbolt 3 (like the MacBook Pro) and still work with computers that don't have Thunderbolt 3 (like the MacBook). Apple will probably use it in a new Thunderbolt 3 display. It would need two inputs to support 5K from a computer that doesn't have DisplayPort 1.4 and doesn't have Thunderbolt 3, otherwise it will work as 4K. Maybe moshi had this in mind when listing the features of it's USB-C to DisplayPort cable? They told me some of the language came from Apple when I told them their cable has nothing to do with Thunderbolt.
https://www.moshi.com/usb-c-to-displayport-cable-5k

Maybe we'll see Titan Ridge add-in cards in the future.
 
Hi

Can anyone help me.

Gigabyte did not have Z370-UD5 motherboard at this time.

Because I require to have 2 gigabit ethernet port for my rig to run linux or FreeBSD. Besides MACos.

One of the aorus motherboard have intel and killer ethernet ports.

Right now the only option that I have is the Z370XP SLI which have only one ethernet port or the Aorus motherboard.

Now that Gigabyte have two versions of GC-Alpine Ridge thunderbolt 3 card. Version 1 and 2.

I enquire the shop, that they only have version 1 not version 2.

Which version should I get for the GC-Alpine Ridge for Z370.

Does the Asus thunderbolt 3 card works with Gigabyte motherboard?

Consider one thing, with the Asus ThunderboltEX card you can enable hotplug via SSDT, but not with Alpine Ridge for now (we are working on it)

I know that you can adapt the ThunderboltEX card to Gigabyte motherboards (see this thread), but I do not know if the SSDTs work properly.
 
Hi everyone, does anyone know where can I buy this card without it being overpriced?

ebay: 140usd
amazon: not selling it
newegg: 150usd
fry's electronics: 55usd but not shipping to Florida, US.

Thanks

Give amazon another try. It may only be available here in the US, but I just got one for $55 USD and they are still listed as being in stock.
 
HOW DO I UPDATE THE FIRMWARE of the GC-Alpine Ridge???

Finally bought the card. Works fine in Windows, gives me crossed over circle at startup on macOS.

I can't for the life of me understand how to update the firmware!!! The program on Gigabytes webpage just installs something called FlashTBT_100.exe... running that, it says I have firmware 20 and asks me to select a bin file... the only bin file available gives the message... "Error: blabla GENERATION_MISMATCH firmware image file is not compatible with controller hardware generation".

I just have no clue how to flash the card!?

(Windows 10, macOS 10.13.4)
 
It sounds like you have the Alpine Ridge rev 2.0 card, which has no firmware update at this stage.
 
It sounds like you have the Alpine Ridge rev 2.0 card, which has no firmware update at this stage.
I’m pretty sure it’s Rev 1.0... was trying to get hold of 2.0 but finally gave up... it has firmware 20 and firmware 21 is available on Gigabyte’s webpage... it’s just that I can’t get the installer to work... (maybe because I’m a retard when it comes to doing things in Windows)
 
Got an GigabyteAlpineRidge TB card rev.1 here, too. I was only able to upgrade firmware to NVM21 when installing Thunderbolt Drivers version 16.3.x.x - had latest drivers 17.1.x.x first installed. When i than tried to upgrade TB-firmware under windows, it always run into errors in the last steps. After downgrading the TB-drivers to a version prior to 16.3.x.x the upgrade of TB-firmware went flawlessly and i now have NVM21 on my GBAlpine card.

Give it a try with older TB-drivers.
 
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