How about Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge...?

oli.mathieu said:

Is there anyone with an Gigabyte X299 motherboard with Titan Ridge PCIe card and can see any thunderbolt parameters in the BIOS ?
I contacted Gigabyte support that told me :
The GC-TITAN RIDGE is compatible with GIGABYTE motherboards of that include a Thunderbolt™ header on below Intel platform: H370/B360-series

Please use the GC-Alpine Ridge 2.0"

But the Card is working ... Mystery

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Perhaps Gigabyte has not bothered to test the Titan Ridge on a X299 motherboard. But if it is working for you, then why worry?

Jamesbond007 said:

Perhaps Gigabyte has not bothered to test the Titan Ridge on a X299 motherboard. But if it is working for you, then why worry?

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They haven't updated the firmware yet for the other motherboards. Maybe Gigabyte has stock of GC-ALPINE RIDGE they need to offload still so they need a set of current motherboards that can't use the new Titan Ridge yet.

Jamesbond007 said:

But if it is working for you, then why worry?

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You're right . But if it's stop working one day, I have no leverage to make it work again...

Gigabyte support is asking the engineers team to know if there will be support of the Titan Ridge in a further BIOS.

I was wondering, the interest of the DisplayPort output on the Titan ridge :
It's just a loop from those minidisplayport Inputs, isn't it ?

oli.mathieu said:

I was wondering, the interest of the DisplayPort output on the Titan ridge :
It's just a loop from those minidisplayport Inputs, isn't it ?

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If you connect a DisplayPort device to a Thunderbolt 3 port or the DisplayPort output, then I guess it could be considered a loop.

However, if you connect a Thunderbolt device to the Thunderbolt port, then the DisplayPort input is encoded as Thunderbolt. I think this happens only if a DisplayPort device is connected to a Thunderbolt controller further down the chain. The encoded DisplayPort signal is decoded by that other Thunderbolt controller to be output to the DisplayPort device connected to it.

I don't know if the encoding/decoding process happens for a DisplayPort device connected directly to the originating Thunderbolt controller (the GC-TITAN RIDGE).

I've had to uninstall the Titan Ridge card from my X299 system. It was causing all sorts of stability issues (BIOS would get stuck at "Detect HDD" unless I completely powered down the system first, my computer would freeze up and not turn the display back on if I left it for too long, etc, etc). None of these issues are present with the Alpine Ridge card, so I've reverted until the community has more time to work out the Titan Ridge.

Anyone get the Titan Ridge working in a z370 system yet? If yes, can you share your settings and process? I have it working and recognized by Windows 10, and DisplayPort pass through via the TB3 connection works on Mojave. But can't get it to recognize my OWC TB3 storage.

Titan Ridge usually requires a BIOS update on Z370 boards

iDon't said:

Titan Ridge usually requires a BIOS update on Z370 boards

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Yes, I know that. Thanks. It wouldn't be working under Windows if I hadn't already updated the BIOS. The issue is that it's not working on Mojave. Pretty sure this is an SSDT/IOReg issue based on my research but it is complex and most of the info I have found has been around getting a Alpine-Ridge card working. I suspect that TR can be made to work similarly but was just hoping that someone had already done it and could share their methods for success.

Would anyone know if the GC-Titan Ridge works on an Asus X99-A II motherboard ?

I've been using the Asus ThunderboltEX3 tb3 PCIe card to connect an Apollo Twin MK II Quad via the Star.Tech tb3 to tb2 adapter, it works but a few days ago the ThunderboltEX3 card failed. It's the second time that this is happening to me, 2 of these cards that lasted a bit more than a year, then hardware failure. Pretty annoying.

That's why I'm thinking about the GC-Titan Ridge or perhaps the older GC-Alpine Ridge, they seem to have a thermal shield case comparing to the ThunderboltEX3 card which is "naked".

I don't mind too much about the hot-swap feature and I won't be using any network or display through Thunderbolt, I just need it to connect to my UAD Apollo Twin.

Any successful setup with ASUS X99-A II board and Gigabyte Thunderbolt cards ??
I'm still running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G8030) because of the Nvidia GPU in my Mobo.

Thank you.