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Good find, is what is needed, but I don't find the price the least bit reasonable. It's probably a combination of Intel TB license fee and a lower volume product.Akitio have released a thunderbolt 3 to PCIe box. Been waiting for something like this to finally be available at a reasonable price (I think this will be a shade under $300). Once somewhere like Amazon picks it up I'm going to buy one and can then finally test if the TBT3 works on the GIgabyte board.
right, but where do you get a Sata Express -to- m.2 interface. All I've seen is using Sata Express to Raid two SATA drives to use that extra bandwidth vs SATA.q-silver should be Gen 3x2. So half the bandwidth of an M.2 connector.
Good find, is what is needed, but I don't find the price the least bit reasonable. It's probably a combination of Intel TB license fee and a lower volume product.
It's worth maybe $150-200 tops WITH a power supply. I mean common, think of how much barebones you can get for $300...this is MUCH less chips than
that. It's just a riser card with a tiny power section and a TB interface. IF this sort of thing takes off then is should eventually sell for what I'm saying.
Still looking for some actual testing of the GB z170N on some kinda of actual TB device.
brams, do you have a copy of the hacked BIOS? Would be handy if the enclosure doesn't work to try out the modified BIOS.
I might reload my hacked F4C and see what happens just in case..... as my hacked F4CBIOS had a load more options that the GB F4 one does.
Cheers
brams
hey brams, that's no error on the Z170N Gaming 5. I do have a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 as my running system, using the same Startech TB1/2-TB3 adapter gives me exactly the same message.
Do you have a reference to the hackint0sh link?
I was looking at this option and it just appears not to be supported by Gigabyte for whatever reason. It may have the hardware but it appears it doesn't work right or has issues is my best guess why Gigabyte has not pushed this further on that board. I was hoping to use this for a smaller monitor, discrete gpu (a whole other issue) and there is just nothing out there saying it is even possible or anyone actually doing it. You're the first.So I've been following this thread for a while to see what can be done for enabling Thunderbolt 3 on the z170n-G5 and thought I'd post up some progress. Gigabyte has been anything but helpful(check out the pic, it doesn't show their responses other than most recent but you can get the idea)
Was waiting to hear back from GB before trying anything to see if they'd be helpful. Now that that's out of the way, I'm going to see if I can get it to work. I have Startech's TB3 to TBI&II adapter. I'm going to try and get it to work using the F4 BIOS, the Thunderbolt firmware update(seems like you need NVM 14 or newer for the Thunderbolt support in Win 10), forcing the integrated GPU on/as primary to try and get the DisplayPort alt mode to work over TB3, and then see if I get around the Billboard error. I'll be testing using a mid-2011 Apple Thunderbolt Display.
odarnoc still no luck with the Akitio box. I think it is possibly because there is no PD firmware for it - the firmware update tool only does the NVM firmware. I was half tempted to flash the new firmware for one of the other boards just to see what happens, but would rather not break my motherboard if something went wrong.
I tried to flash the new firmware...but it doesn't allow you to do it, cause it needs some .bin file that we don't have (the firmware includes .bin files for the certified mobos)...odarnoc still no luck with the Akitio box. I think it is possibly because there is no PD firmware for it - the firmware update tool only does the NVM firmware. I was half tempted to flash the new firmware for one of the other boards just to see what happens, but would rather not break my motherboard if something went wrong.
odarnoc still no luck with the Akitio box. I think it is possibly because there is no PD firmware for it - the firmware update tool only does the NVM firmware. I was half tempted to flash the new firmware for one of the other boards just to see what happens, but would rather not break my motherboard if something went wrong.
No issue here on Z170N G5 coming out of sleep. Also no issue running pc 3000 ram. Built two systems using this motherboard and both worked at PC 3000.barsberge Interesting find, gives hope that more TB3 Mini-ITX boards will come out of the woodwork. Having said that the new Gigabyte Z270 Mini-ITX board (GA-Z270N-WIFI) is also out, but once again that one doesn't have thunderbolt 3, just USB type-c. The ASUS one (ROG Strix Z270I Gaming) also has only a type-c, so maybe it's just ASRock that have decided to buck the trend.
Out of curiosity, have you had any issues with the Gaming 5 waking up from sleep? On mine the board seems to lock up every time it wakes up so I have to pull the power completely to get it to boot again. Thinking about it, may be something to do with the F20 bios as I don't recall any issues until I upgraded it.
Any luck with Thunderbolt?Z170N-Gaming 5 has a new BIOS out - F21. The description for this is "Improves Thunderbolt Capability". Now that got my hopes up.
Having flashed it, the "Force TBT Enable" bios option now works again - the Thunderbolt 3 software once again detects that there is a AR 1577 controller. But as they haven't release the PD firmware, I think we will be in the same situation as before - a computer that thinks it has TBT3, but doesn't detect TBT3 devices. I'll try with my enclosure tomorrow, but not holding out hope.
That's what I did.. got rid of my Z170N Gaming 5 which I never really used (because TB supporrt is a must with my peripherals) and bought a brand new Z270 Gaming itx/ac - that way I could sell my "temporary" ATX TB3 mainboard from gigabyte as well.Budda5150 Nah, nor will there ever be. I'm half tempted to drop it at buy the Asrock Z270 mitx board.
I noticed the same with my ASRock Z170 but I removed the Broadcom card, didn't replace it though.My Asrock Fatality Z170 Gaming ITX/ac had very flaky bluetooth connection until I replaced the Broadcom card with an Intel card.