You won't see thunderbolt on something without integrated intel graphics for you need something to drive the minidisplayport part of thunderbolt.
x79 is not going to get thunderbolt...at least is not going to get thunderbolt with intel blessing since x79 can't have integrated graphics (remember x79 is designed for quad and hex cores and possibly octocores).
I can't see this coming in at anything less than $500 US.
Anybody know if you can do Thunderbolt via a PCI-E x16 expansion card? No such thing on Newegg, but this is the time of year such a product would be announced....
Good point, why not dual Intel? Also, surely there will be Thunderbolt add ons. The exclusivity agreement with Apple is up so now we're seeing Thunderbolt support on some boards. See the recent Asus review on this site
yes that truly sucks. with dual intel, it would suport NIC teaming, until more specs on the board is relase, i'm going to guess that that won't be posible.
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Breit - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
Where is the Thunderbolt connector? I think a 2nd-gen x79 board should have one...Roland00Address - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
You won't see thunderbolt on something without integrated intel graphics for you need something to drive the minidisplayport part of thunderbolt.x79 is not going to get thunderbolt...at least is not going to get thunderbolt with intel blessing since x79 can't have integrated graphics (remember x79 is designed for quad and hex cores and possibly octocores).
Breit - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
DisplayPort is not the only application thunderbolt is useful for...SteveTheWalrus - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
yes but its part of it and the iGPU is fairly necessary for that...just like he said, not with intel's blessingTaft12 - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
I can't see this coming in at anything less than $500 US.Anybody know if you can do Thunderbolt via a PCI-E x16 expansion card? No such thing on Newegg, but this is the time of year such a product would be announced....
zerorift - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
The server component had me really excited, but then I saw the Atheros card....Why would a motherboard vendor go through the trouble of providing 14 (!) SATA ports only to slap a 35c NIC onboard to pair with the Intel hardware?
Would it have really cost that much more to provide two Intel NICs so you could use LACP?
mars2k - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link
Good point, why not dual Intel? Also, surely there will be Thunderbolt add ons. The exclusivity agreement with Apple is up so now we're seeing Thunderbolt support on some boards. See the recent Asus review on this siteMadHacker - Friday, June 8, 2012 - link
yes that truly sucks.with dual intel, it would suport NIC teaming,
until more specs on the board is relase, i'm going to guess that that won't be posible.