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Pros

The gb card offers 100w charging w/ 2 x 6 pin pcie cables from the psu. My gigabyte z590 aorus pro ax mother has the thunderbolt 4 headers on the motherboard thus this board is a perfect fit. You need the card, a motherboard that will interface with i...  Read More

This is a tb 4 card which has the same speed specs as a tb3. When dealing with these types of cutting edge speeds, your connected devices potentially are all bottlenecks so keep that in mind. It is the nature of the signal path, and because of it, you...  Read More



Cons

Had to remove an m. It will not work on a gigabyte amd motherboard.

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Quality


Works fine with my aorus z790 master -- i max the speeds on the devices i connect, no driver issues, and really low, stupidly l...  Read More


It works great on my evga x299 dark after shorting pins 3 & 5.


So for me this card wasn't hard to install and setup, and i had zero problems or issues using it with one of the latest gigabyt...  Read More


Attaching external drives was easy and they benched out properly.

Price


I was able to pick up an open box item at a great price.


Used/open-box prices run about $70-$80 which, is less than half the cost of buying this card new.


Nice interface, but dang is it expensive.

Shipping


The product came quickly, so i felt good, before installing it, i looked at the manual.


For power delivery you then need to connect two 6-pin vga/pcie power cables from your psu.

Packaging/appearance


This is best suitable to my pc ,improved the performance of my pc exponentiallythe quality of the product is very goodi have or...  Read More


The, "used," card i bought looked brand new and only 1 of the cable packages (the 5-pin) was open.

Competitiveness


I give it 4 stars because the product is expensive compared to the one from asus which is half the price.


I had no alternative to purchase this card instead of the asus one, because my motherboard is gigabyte and doesn't support asus...  Read More


Apparently, a lot of people don't check to see if their boards/cpu will support this card before buying it so it isn't uncommon...  Read More


The hesitation comes from each option from the 3 players should be ignored other than asus which only works with asus.

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  • This product had a total of 119 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 11 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I didnt use thunderbolt card yet for what i need because i dont have an audio device to test it with but it did recognize the card and shows it thunderbolt control center


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    On gigabyte z690 aorus master there are 2 cables that need to be connected into the motherboard


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In my case i noticed usbc was less stable using this card than plugging into usbc port on my motherboard


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Because on z690 aorus master pcie lanes on the bottom are working in parallels with each other and share lane before they go into the chipset


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Top usbc port on motherboard will go directly into the chipset


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is the nature of the signal path and because of it you are forced to set higher buffer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For gaming in red dead redemption 2 i use same sample rate but 128 samples or 256 samples depending on time of the day

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