Thunderbolt Card For Mac Pro
- Jan 18, 2019 Part.1 Finally Thunderbolt comes to the classic Mac Pro (near enough) via the Gigabyte Titan Ridge PCIe Expansion card.
- Jul 12, 2017 A USB3.1 card only gives you USB3.1 it does not in this case give you Thunderbolt3 or Thunderbolt2 capabilities. Hence no Thunderbolt adapters or devices will work via this card even if they use the same Type-C connector. There is no way at all to add Thunderbolt to any classic Mac Pro including the 2008 model.
Adding Thunderbolt to any of the tower Mac Pros would be very difficult, and very unlikely to happen. Someone would need to design a card similar to the Asus card from the link, and along with it a.
Are there any new options for adding Thunderbolt technology to my system?
No. At this writing, to have ThunderBolt a system must be born with it.
Is there anything in the pipeline that people know about for something like this?
No.
And what would you recommend as a current 'up to date' alternative that won't break the bank?
Thunderbolt is a mix of many different things. If you own a Mac Pro, you already have up to three free PCI slots that are more valuable than ThunderBolt, and a graphics card that can drive three displays.
Mac Pro 5 1 Thunderbolt
What are you trying to accomplish that seems to need ThunderBolt?
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