Thunderbolt header on Asus motherboard

[mizer357]

I'm exploring ways to add Thunderbolt to my rig. My mother board is an Asus X99 Sabertooth, and there is a 5 pin header for Thunderbolt on the motherboard. I see that Asus offers a PCI card, the ThunderboltEX, to add IOs. My question is, do I need a PCI card if the motherboard has a header in place already? Or is there is simpler gadget available that would simply allow me to run a cable from the header to an empty slot in my case?

Thanks.

 

[Pandur]

You will need the addon card to get working thunderbolt. The header is just for communication between the motherboard chipset and TB controller on the addon card.