Gigabyte launches a trio of X299X motherboards for Cascade Lake-X

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10GbE, Thunderbolt 3, WiFi 6 and more.



Read more about Gigabyte's X299X series motherboards.

 

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Do these chips run on X299 boards?

 

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While this board lacks Thunderbolt 3.0 support, the Aorus Master does contain support for Intel WiFi 6 and support for 5GbE through an Aquantia LAN controller.

The board has Thunderbolt 3 support it is just not integrated. There is a TB3 add-in card connector.

Do these chips run on X299 boards?

Yes they do. PC World confirmed. New bords just support extra 4 CPU PCI-E lanes.

 

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The board has Thunderbolt 3 support it is just not integrated. There is a TB3 add-in card connector.

I have edited the article to mention that it supports Thunderbolt 3 when an add-in card is connected. Even so, the board lacks integrated support for Thunderbolt out of the box and it should not be considered as a default feature.

I doubt many PC builders would spend the £80ish required for a Thunderbolt add-on card.

 

[Avet]

I have edited the article to mention that it supports Thunderbolt 3 when an add-in card is connected. Even so, the board lacks integrated support for Thunderbolt out of the box and it should not be considered as a default feature.

I doubt many PC builders would spend the £80ish required for a Thunderbolt add-on card.

Actually it should be considered a more premium feature. I have looked at manuals that have block diagrams. Both Designare and Xtreme have Thunderbolt connected through PCH. Designare even has X550-AT2 added on PCH. That is 60 Gb/s through DMI 3.0... What a joke. And that doesn't include all the USBs, SATA, and pretty much everything else on the motherboard. Having Thunderbolt AIC through proper CPU lanes is much better. And the price usually evens out. Designare ~ MASTER + AIC.