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• BigMamaInHouse - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  Do you know why only ASROCK boards are Thunderbolt 3 ready?

• jab701 - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  Probably because they are the only ones to have theirs certified already.
  
  This board seems to have the controller on-board, the other one I saw from ASROCK has the thunderbolt header and you would have to buy a separate add-on card from ASROCK.
  
  It is nice to see, I would like to see a gigabyte/asus AMD board with tunderbolt 3 as it might just make up upgrade my PC from the intel skylake I currently have. I need more processor cores :) but I don't want to ditch the couple of thunderbolt peripherals I already have :)

• mooninite - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  Do you have thunderbolt devices? If so, how many and what are they?

• SaturnusDK - Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - link

  A TB3 PCIe card is what? $50? I don't really see that as a major or serious obstacle towards upgrading a PC.

• rahvin - Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - link

  Well given the complete lack of USB 3.1 Gen2 ports you'd need a TB port to get any modern USB speed. Seriously every port is USB 3.1 Gen1 which is just USB 3.0 5gbs with the potential for TypeC ports. I can't believe there isn't a single Gen2 port.

• Skeptical123 - Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - link

  You do know the two Thunderbolt3 ports also act as USB 3.1 Gen2 ports. Another way of looking at this would be saying the motherboard has two USB 3.1 Gen2 ports that also support Thunderbolt3. Also it sounds like you think they simple chose not to add more USB 3.1 Gen2 ports. That is not the case there are contra stains I won't wast my time getting into here but it's not something ASRock can simple just add.

• FiveOhFour - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

  I think you’re possibly confused

• GreenReaper - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  You know, $999 is under $1000...and it'd match the board count, so it's the natural choice.

• Skeptical123 - Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - link

  I came to comment section to say the same thing :)

• Tunnah - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  I love these top-end boards. It's not for me, way out of my price range and effort, but I really like seeing manufacturers just going all out and catering to the nutter crowd.

• mobutu - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  I really don;t get it, if you make only one thousand boards available then why the one thousand us dollars price for one?
  
  why not five thousands or maybe ten thousands?
  
  I'm pretty sure in this whole big world there are one thousands foool to pay this price.

• wrkingclass_hero - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  "this thing is not a light tough." ???
  This article has quite a few grammar and flow issues. If you guys need a proofreader, I'm available.😉

• Dragonstongue - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  it made absolute sense when I read it...
  
  tbh it is NOT that "big a deal" unless was meant to say one thing but completely another typo ^.^

• Assimilator87 - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  Maybe he was trying to be consistent with the vendor. In the specs sheet, it says "Graphics Intput". By the way, in what scenario would the internal DisplayPort input be used? My brain's not very imaginative right now x_x

• misc - Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - link

  Some PC motherboards with Thunderbolt support can accept a DisplayPort input and mux it into an outgoing Thunderbolt connection.

• eastcoast_pete - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link

  Even if it stops working, at least this thing would be a doorstop that really stops the door from moving. Can give you a hernia, too.

• Doc Rob - Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - link

  I want one.. but not for that price..

• Threska - Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - link

  Getting into Threadripper territory.