ThunderboltEX 4 with Intel® Thunderbolt™ 4 JHL 8540 Controller, 2 USB Type-C Ports, up to 40Gb/s bi-Directional Bandwidth, DisplayPort 1.4 Support, up to 100W Quick Charge, Black

Works great if you hook it up correctly! Using an ZikeDrive Model Z666 USB4 M.2 Nmve case (they claim the fastest M.2 Drive Case): and an Fanxiang S880 4TB M.2 Nmve I get the fastest speeds of 3050.32 MB/s read, 2689.04 using Crystal Disk Mark 8 speed test. Running the Orico TCM-U4 Thunderbolt4 USB4 case with an Fanxiang S880 4TB M.2 I get the speeds: 3049.98 MB/s read, 2689.04 MB/s write. The Orico TCM-U4 is cheaper, but has a cooling problem with its top installed - but works great with thermal strip and copper heat sink and no top installed - it is reliable. But the ZikeDrive Model Z666 USB4 M.2 is slightly faster, has excellent cooling so far - better heat sink metal case with plastic over it - but the ZikeDrive is not as reliable when running thru my Plugable TB4 USB4 Hub (cant boot computer with it hooked in w/o error - sometimes errors if it is plugged in after computer booted? Seems to be working ok now.) The above ZikeDrive Model Z66 with Fanxian S880 4TB when plugged into Plugable TB4 USB4 Hub to Asus ThunderboltEx4 will get 2977.65 MB/s read, 1893.94 MB/s write for anyone who is interested. This same Fanxian S880 4TB when plugged into my Asus Hyper M.2 X16 Gen 4 Card or my Asus X670E-E motherboard M.2 PCIe 5.0 slot runs at 7271.24 MB/s read, 6187.19 MB/s write. So you can see the bottle neck is not in the M.2 I am using. It is cable of this speed, but Thunderbol 3 or 4 or USB4 is not cable of that speed. (I can't wait for Thunderbolt 5! I hope it works with my motherboard!) I am running Windows 10 & Windows 11 dual boot. Tests were done in Windows 10 on a Asus X670E-E Motherboard with AMD Ryzen 7950X3D CPU and using the GPU: MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB OC Edition "BGB GDDRR6X". And 96 GB DDR5 RAM (GSkill) 5400Mhz. So this is a top notch AMD computer build and is quite fast. I boot from an XPG 4TB GAMMIX S70 Blade PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal Gaming SSD Up to 7,400 MB/s in the PCIe 4.0 internal M.2 slot on the Asus Motherboard. (It has 3 PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots too reserved for future Raid-0 for video recording/editing and audio, etc.) To get this to work properly you MUST plug it into the proper PCIe X4 slot, plug the included cable from the USB 2.0 port on it into the USB 2.0 header on your motherboard, and plug the included cable from Thunderbolt Header on it into the Thunderbolt Header on your motherboard. If you don't hook it up to the USB 2.0, USB Devices can work on it, but no Thunderbolt. I have an Orico TCM-U4 Thunderbolt4 USB4 case with an Fanxiang S880 4TB M.2 in it, it was running at 1063.91 MB/s read, 1057 MB/s write, when the ThunderboltEx4 was not hooked up from its USB 2.0 to the USB 2.0 header on the motherboard. But when the ThunboltEx4 was hooked up correctly (USB 2.0 on it to USB 2.0 header on motherboard) then it was running at 3049.98 MB/s read, 2689.04 MB/s write, using the Fanxiang S880 4TB M.2.

After reading these other reviews from alleged "technically inclined" and "experienced" folk, I'm compelled to leave my own. The manual is short because there's literally 4 steps for installation. It can't provide specifics to certain things because these details are unique to each system, or you'd end up with a manual the size of the dictionary, accounting for all variables. So this means you'll need to invest a little time, effort and brain juice looking up the details of your motherboard. My motherboard manual told me exactly which slot it HAD to be installed in. When it didn't work as expected after plugging everything in, a quick Google search provided me the answer I was looking for, that I may need to make a change in the bios. If you're technically inclined, neither of these things should surprise you. This has had no problem running my setup with a 4090 and two 4k monitors. I'm using this to relocate my tower to the adjacent room so I stop suffering from heat stroke put out by the psu and gpu in my tiny office.

Hardware is fine (though misleading), support documentation is probably the worst headache I've dealt with coming from an established company such as Asus. I purchased this card to use with my standing desk setup - I wanted to clean up the cables a bit, and the best solution for me was to install a thunderbolt card. Having an Asus motherboard that properly supports this device, I bit the bullet and invested a couple hundred dollars in an entire thunderbolt setup. After countless hours troubleshooting the card (and researching online forums about trouble with this card in particular), I figured out why it's been so difficult to get it the way I wanted it to work: - Port 1 is a full-fledged thunderbolt port, meaning you get high-speed USB, PCIe tunneling, and all of that. Problem is, it seems to be a PURELY hot-swappable thunderbolt port, with the intentional design being that it does NOT work at all during boot (displays are a hit or miss), and that you can only use USB devices after the OS has loaded and the thunderbolt drivers are initialized. Every boot with peripherals connected to this port will throw a "No keyboard detected" bios error at you. - Port 2 is.. another thunderbolt port, which DOES work immediately during boot (all USB devices are accessible and displays have never failed me), but it does not have full thunderbolt capabilities - biggest issue being that it does not support anything above USB 2.0; I have no idea if PCIe tunneling works because quite honestly, it's discouraging to troubleshoot more after dealing with this garbage. This has been a HUGE inconvenience, because I have a Focusrite audio interface that requires a USB 3.0 connection to be stable - Considering that port 2 is the only usable port during boot (sure, power cycling the thunderbolt dock / hub works after boot, but this is not preferable at all - ESPECIALLY when most of the time, displays aren't usable until OS is running meaning you can't even access the BIOS), I'd have to power cycle the interface once every ~5-15 minutes, which sucks just as much. Worst of all? No manual for this device mentions this at all. The only reason I could come to this conclusion is through all those hours of research on forums for this device - every single negative comment I've seen have had the exact same issues that I've had, being that you'd have to power cycle the thunderbolt dock to make it work after a cold boot (on port 1, which is usually not mentioned but understandably feels like "the port" to have everything connected to), but nothing about port 2 being limited to USB 2.0 (I only found that out by checking USBView with that Focusrite interface connected to the dock by swapping it between the TB card's port 1 and 2; port 1 read that it was "SuperSpeed capable" [USB 3.0], port 2 read it was just "High-speed" [USB 2.0])

Recommend using this if you have a Apple Mac or iPad Pro with TB4 connectivity. Intel has a 'share' Thunderbolt package but I don't have an Applie Mac or iPad to test sharing. It took me a while to figure out how to update the microcode of the card, but it's updated now and working excellently. The z590 motherboard has very limited PCIe connections as the card required x8 and there is only one slot with full-x8 pins. This is recommended to have 11th Generation CPU to get PCIe 4 capability. The card isn't prohibitively expensive, but it's an add-on to a limited motherboard.

So, like quite a few others, I saw this item, read the description for what it does (adds thunderbolt ports), liked the manufacturer's products, and went ahead with a purchase. Unfortunately, this product only adds usable thunderbolt ports to your system if it is on the list of supported motherboards. You'd think basic information like this would be in the product description to prevent issues like this, but evidently it was overlooked. Installing the device will cause some thunderbolt ports to appear in your device manager under Windows, but they won't operate and, at least in my case, it also causes the system to become unstable and I got unpredictable blue-screens until the device and drivers were removed. Please be sure that your motherboard is on the list of supported devices before making a purchase to save yourself the trouble of figuring out why things aren't working or are breaking randomly. I'd link to the manufacturer's document showing the compatible systems, but that's against community guidelines, so I recommend performing a search via your favorite engine for "ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 Compatibility", going to the manufacturer's web site, and read the PDF document with the list of supported motherboards.

Pros: Has given my AMD B550 Motherboard fast and reliable Thunderbolt connectivity. Have zero complaints about it once I got it working. It actually has been more reliable with my Thunderbolt 4 hub than a another PC with onboard support for Thunderbolt 4. I'm using dual DisplayPort pass-through to monitors running at 4K, with no issues. I have a bunch of USB devices connected through the hub including a 4K webcam, which also work with no issues. Everything connects and is functional from either cold boots or sleep and I've not had any issues with devices randomly disconnecting. Contrary to other reviews, once this is set up correctly, I get the BIOS splash screen on monitors connected via a Thunderbolt hub and I'm able to use a keyboard/mouse connected through the hub before the OS boots. Cons: The documentation provided with the card is woefully incomplete, so I'm here to get you up to speed. Installation: The card requires an available PCI 4x slot, a dedicated Thunderbolt header on your motherboard, an available USB 2.0 header on your motherboard, and a six-pin PCIe connector from your power supply. Installing the card is as easy as connecting all of those things. Simply installing the card isn't enough, and this is where the documentation really fails. After installation, you will need to enter the PC's BIOS and enable Thunderbolt support. It is not enabled by default! This varies by motherboard, so it will involve searching all of the "advanced" settings. After you find the right settings, enable them, save settings, reboot. At that Windows should recognize the card and you can install the driver. One reboot later and Thunderbolt should be fully functional. Which Thunderbolt port to use: The Thunderbolt ports on the card were clearly designed with daisy-chaining in mind and it impacts their functionality. Port 1 (the closest to the edge of the card) seems to be intended as the "Thunderbolt In" port. I wasn't able to get my hub to work with this port. Port 2 seems to be the "Thunderbolt Out" port. My hub works without issue when connected to the second port. Port 1 is powered, so it seems like you'd want to connect it to peripherals anyway, but again it's not explained in the documentation. Other thoughts: My only other (minor) compliant is that the DisplayPort-in ports are DP1.4 and only support a single monitor per connection. There's two DP-ins, so it's not a big deal as long as you have two available DP connectors on your GPU.

As mentioned before. Most failed installs are more than likely by users who have absolutely no business trying to install this. It is not difficult but you definitely need to know your way around the hardware and your motherboard, bios configuration, and installation of the drivers supplied on CD which is very easy. The card (like all the other Thunderbolt cards) belong in the bottom PCIE slot as indicated by the manufacturer and several videos and reviews that can be found online. You must also connect the supplied Thunderbolt cable to the Thunderbolt header on your motherboard and connect the supplied USB connection cable which goes from the card to the USB 2.0 header slot on your motherboard. You must also connect PCIe/VGA power to the unit. It isn't hard but it is tedious and you need to be careful. If you do not have proper mapping of your motherboard or know what PCIe slot is which, do not attempt. Pay a shop to install it. You must also go into the advanced settings in your BIOS and enable a few Thunderbolt options. Then finally, after booting, I loaded the drivers via the CD, rebooted, and the card works perfectly. This is not a PNP (Plug and Play) card! I specifically have an ASUS B660 motherboad and that is why I chose this ASUS card. I have no idea how old of a system can work with this card but I am sure if you do not have a Thunderbolt header on your motherboard it will not work.

My motherboard does not support PCIE tunneling, but the Thunderbolt4 enclosure I use handles this. When I realized my motherboard supports Thunderbolt4 I thought I needed it. Don't forget to install the SATA-6pin. I then realized that I need a M.2 drive and a M.2 Thunderbolt4 enclosure, as well as a 3.3ft Thunderbolt4 Type-C cable and extra thermal pads. I use the software ShadowProtect SPX — my software rating = 10/10. I've attached my CrystalDiskMark to this review. I had difficulties updating my M.2's firmware due to enabling software RAID in the motherboard. I had to remove the ThunderboltEX4, remove the M.2 from the enclosure, install the M.2 in a PCIe X16 M.2 key, install the M.2 key, boot the firmware .iso, press ENTER, shut down, remove the M.2 key, remove the M.2 from the M.2 key, install the M.2 back into the enclosure with fresh thermal pads, and then reinstall the ThunderboltEX4. EDIT 6/02/26: After doing a bit of research, and considering my current configuration, it turns out I actually didn't need Thunderbolt for any of its functionalities. The computer I originally bought one of these for does not support PCIe tunneling, which was one possible implementation. Also, I ordered a second one of these cards for connecting a workstation to a server by utilizing Thunderbolt networking, however I discovered that the server's motherboard does not have complete Thunderbolt and therefore cannot utilize that feature. I returned the second one I recently ordered, and the one already owned will be sold at a modest price while still being in very good condition. To replace the ThunderboltEX4 cards and to substitute Thunderbolt networking, I ordered two PCIe network adapter cards and a FCoE cable.

Al inicio me dio problemas, no reconocía lo que conectaba. Marcaba mensaje de que no estaba activado el tunel de pcie o algo parecido. Le actualicé el firmware, actualicé el bios de mi placa (ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI), reinstalé windows 11 y nada. Luego de tanto buscar y toparme con varios usuarios con problemas similares, vi que uno dijo que lo cambió de slot y funcionó. Así que lo cambié a otro slot y ya funciona bien. Lo tenía conectado en el último slot, lo pasé al penúltimo y funcionó. Ahora trabaja de maravilla. Tengo un hub que tiene dos M.2 dentro (uno SATA y otro PCIe) y logra transferencias de 500 - 550 MB/s para el SATA y de unos 1.5 - 2.0 GB/s para el PCIe.

USB2 のピンヘッダーを使用するので、マザーによってはピンヘッダーが枯渇します。 私の場合はピンヘッダーを増設して切り抜けました。

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I use a Mac Pro for work but also game on PC so this allowed me to use all my peripherals like mouse, keyboard, monitor usb hub, headphone stand and sound card all be swapped between the two machines with a single cable. Before this I was using a usb 10GB hub which didn’t have enough bandwidth for all devices so was unplugging 7 cables from pc to Mac whenever I wanted to swap systems. I can even use my 5K Thunderbolt Display on my PC with this add in card. Just be sure to get the right version for your chipset. Mine is Z590 but I believe earlier chipsets use the thunderboltex tr but don’t quote me.

Ürün yeni elime ulaştı. Asus Rıg Strix x670e-e gaming wifi anakart ve Amd Ryzen 7950x işlemciden oluşan sistemime Thunderbolt 4, usb4.0 ve 100w sarj özelliğini kazandırmış oldum. Yakın zamanda, Apple thunderbolt monitör kullanıp kullanamayacağım konusunda test yapacağım