Asus Launches First Motherboard with Thunderbolt 2

[exfileme]

Asus has introduced the Z87-Deluxe/Quad motherboard for Haswell CPUs.

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[TheMentalist]

Well done ASUS, those are smoking fast speeds

 

[ubercake]

Wait... I don't know anyone using Thunderbolt 1 yet and we already have Thunderbolt 2??? Sweet!!!?

 

[SvRommelvS]

Isn't thunderbolt more applicable to video cards than motherboards? I don't want to run a bunch of monitors off the Intel HD4600.

 

[punahou1]

Western Digital has a nice 2TB external hard drive that will work with this. After a quick search I saw it listed for $890 bucks! I think I'll wait until Thunderbolt 2 devices come down in price...

 

[Bolts Romano]

Thumbs up Asus

 

[Pherule]

Awesome. Too bad flash memory still sucks and USB 2.0 doesn't even bottleneck it usually.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

The fastest consumer level SSD are in the 4 Gb/s ballpark, so this make a lot of sense. Oh wait, USB 3.0 provides 5 Gb/s. So there is nothing I can think of to attach to a motherboard that needs that kind of bandwidth.

 

[jojomexi]

arent SSD's at the 6GB/s mark? and although USB3.0 is fastER, its still not fassssst. i transfer a couple gigs of music and it still takes like 5-10 minutes.

 

[lp231]

Thunderbolt can be use as mini displayport, but mini displayport cannot be use as Thunderbolt.
Thunderbolt looks exactly like mini displayport, it's really confusing to tell which is which just by looking at it.
If you want a board with TB, you'll have to look make sure to look at the specs.

 

[velocityg4]

Thunderbolt is going to remain a niche product until they get the prices of peripherals and cables down a lot. They need to make Thunderbolt not require special cables with chips in them to help it work. Docks that provide a PCI-e slot cost more than motherboards with Thunderbolt.

External drives are ridiculously expensive and only begin to make sense with large hard disk RAIDs. However, someone in need of a large RAID is going to buy a dedicated RAID controller card. Negating the need for Thunderbolt.

arent SSD's at the 6GB/s mark? and although USB3.0 is fastER, its still not fassssst. i transfer a couple gigs of music and it still takes like 5-10 minutes.

If you are using modern high speed SSD's then something is wrong. As far as hard drives go this makes sense. Numerous small files kill transfer speeds. You'd get much faster rates transferring one large video file.

 

[Firion87]

@ssdpro sir, I'm a MSI fanboy but this was funny. You will be right ))

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I've read this mobo has the C1 stepping. Might want to check that out before buying.

 

[ubercake]

Western Digital has a nice 2TB external hard drive that will work with this. After a quick search I saw it listed for $890 bucks! I think I'll wait until Thunderbolt 2 devices come down in price...

By the time the price would have come down to something comparable to a USB or eSATA drive, we'll be enjoying the new Thunderbolt 7 standard which will put the price back up to $890.