Thunderbolt ports

[DRC89]

does anyone know if I would need a new motherboard or a PCI card to install for use of thunderbolt ports USB C
and if PC specialist sell them.

best regards

Dan

 

[steaky360]

@DRC89 post your current specs and we might be able to help

This is currently a bit like asking you if I need to fill my car with petrol or diesel without telling you what car I own

 

[DRC89]

COOLERMASTER SILENCIO S600 QUIET MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)	Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) 16MB Cache
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z390 UD: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)	32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card	4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 SUPER - HDMI
1st Storage Drive	1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
2nd Storage Drive	1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply	CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable	1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling	CoolerMaster Hyper 212X (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler Black Edition
Thermal Paste	STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card	Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy™ FX OEM
Wireless Network Card	10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options	MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System	Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language	United Kingdom - English Language

 

[TonyCarter]

That board supports a Thunderbolt 3 add-in card, so the only question remaining is what do PCS stock that is suitable?

 

[DRC89]

Thanks for the responses, not sure if that would one would work. I need sufficient data transferring. Not sure which one I would need any thoughts

 

[SpyderTracks]

Thanks for the responses, not sure if that would one would work. I need sufficient data transferring. Not sure which one I would need any thoughts

Thunderbolt has a max speed depending on which version. The motherboard header will determine the version of thunderbolt, that’s not something you can change.

 

[TonyCarter]

Everything I looked at indicated that 40GBps was the absolute maximum limit of Thunderbolt regardless of which hardware being used..unless there's some super-fast add-in cards I hadn't seen?

Even Thunderbolt 4 will only provide 40Gbps.

The only faster data transfer will be PCIe 4.0 connected directly to a VERY fast SSD (or maybe multiple ones in a PCIe RAID set-up)?