Gigabyte's Thunderbolt Motherboards Live - Available Soon

[Octavean]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4279

The motherboard UP5 TH now appears on the Gigabyte website!

EDIT: REALTEK AUDIO AND INTEL GIGABIT ETHERNET CHIPS!!

Very good to see,...

I guess I'll just read the manual while I wait for GA-Z77X-UP5 TH availability.

 

[iNews]

It's not possible to do it the way you want, as if you look at the Asus card, they're interfacing with the GPIO bus, which we can't. On top of that, the graphics switching technology doesn't work as you think. VirtuMVP works because it was made to work that way, Apple has done a very different implementation as per the diagram below, as they have only implemented Thunderbolt in notebooks and all-in-ones, not systems with removable graphics cards.

 

[Melete]

I'm not sure if this is the right place...

Could someone briefly explain the benefits of mSATA?

Thanks in advance.

Not really, no, but the benefits are that you get an SSD that's mounted on the motherboard and doesn't take up any space.
Gigabyte's idea was to use it for Intel's SSD caching technology alongside a hard drive, but Apple doesn't support this, so you simply end up with a very small SATA 3Gbps SSD that's fitted on the motherboard.

Many Thanks.

 

[cktse]

Wondering why Gigabyte chose Realtek(ouch!) networking on the UP4 rather than just rely on the integrated Intel Z77 networking like UP5? (assuming Intel networking is what Apple's using in the current Z77 notebooks?)

BTW thanks for posting all the exciting "previews"... can't wait for the official ML release!

 

[thelostswede]

They're not using the "integrated" Intel one as you put it, they're using this http://ark.intel.com/products/52963/Int ... hernet-PHY
At $1.72 a pop, that's quite a lot more expensive than the Realtek option. Considering they've already slapped a $20 Thunderbolt solution on there and are about to launch the cheapest Thunderbolt board to date with the UP4... do you really want to bitch about it?

And no, Apple uses Broadcom - http://www.broadcom.com/products/Ethern ... t/BCM57765

 

[nige2000]

really interested in the ud 5 th
i think i ll find it difficult not to buy this one (pending working thunderbolt)
im i right in saying we would have native usb 3.0

stork,
do you think it will be long after the release of mountain lion that, there will be a relatively easy way to get thunderbolt working.
i know very little about thunderbolt but im assuming it wont be easy

the only problem with a thunderbolt hackintosh is that youll want to put a thunderbolt display beside it

cheers,
keep us posted on any more developments i check this post a few times a day

 

[Nutellash]

Thunderbolt motherboard from Gigabyte are out in 7 days!!

 

[iNews]

Thunderbolt on Mac system have dif firmware
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1407
this not For DSL3510L
maybe in future we will see like this for Macbook (Midi 2012/DSL3510L)

 

[Alfa147x]

Thunderbolt motherboard from Gigabyte are out in 7 days!!

Really? How do you know?

 

[thelostswede]

European pricing for the Z77X-UP5 TH can be found here http://geizhals.eu/807766
And for the Z77X-UP4 TH here http://geizhals.eu/808334

The UP4 is by far the cheapest Thunderbolt board you can get at the moment, but keep in mind that it as four rear USB 3.0 ports controlled by a VLI VL800 controller and so far these ports don't work in OS X.