Gigabyte's Thunderbolt Motherboards Live - Available Soon

[thelostswede]

The Z77X-UP5 TH is now listed in Europe from about €268, but only a few retailers have put it up, but the good news is that it appears to be available sooner than initially expected.
Keep an eye out here for price developments http://geizhals.eu/807766

 

[dojrude]

Ignore - Just read the first post and see that the VIA audio is still listed.

 

[thelostswede]

Ignore - Just read the first post and see that the VIA audio is still listed.

Yes

 

[thelostswede]

And our first Z77X-UP5 TH board has arrived
Some pictures of it below, more to come.

 

[santitf]

Waiting for test device....
Waiting for test device....
Waiting for test device....
Waiting for test device....

 

[thelostswede]

Well, the board works just fine and dandy in 10.7.4, but getting TB to work might prove to be a bit quirky.

We'll post more updates when we know more, but much of it won't be before Mountain Lion launches.

 

[Einsteiniac]

I so can't wait until Newegg has this beast for purchase!

 

[Einsteiniac]

Well, the board works just fine and dandy in 10.7.4, but getting TB to work might prove to be a bit quirky.

We'll post more updates when we know more, but much of it won't be before Mountain Lion launches.

So it sounds like you got it working in ML. Can you confirm that if you have a Discrete card installed that it transmits that video signal over the TB port?

 

[thelostswede]

That's not going to work.
If you want to do that, you need an Asus board with their add-in card, or the upcoming ASRock board. They feed the signal from the graphics card's DP port in to a DP connector on the board and then back out via the TB ports. It's the only way I'm aware of where you could get a discrete card to feed the signal through the DP ports in OS X.

 

[Einsteiniac]

That's not going to work.
If you want to do that, you need an Asus board with their add-in card, or the upcoming ASRock board. They feed the signal from the graphics card's DP port in to a DP connector on the board and then back out via the TB ports. It's the only way I'm aware of where you could get a discrete card to feed the signal through the DP ports in OS X.

From what I understand the Virtuso Software is what routes the discrete to the TB connector. I will have to look into it further but I remember watching a review on Newegg I think that showed it off without Asus' solution of routing the cables in the back.

Mark