Thunderbolt Display Support?

[theknet]

Hi all,

A friend of mine has asked me to build him a rig. But he's currently an Apple user and only has an Apple Thunderbolt Display.

Is there any components that I can get which support this display? Even if it's just the graphics and not the sockets.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Puff3r]

Many current generation motherboards support Thunderbolt. You will need to be much more specific to get good recommendations. What processor are you looking at? Are there any other requirements (number of SATA ports, CrossFire/SLI support, USB 3.0/3.1 support). More details please.

If you are just looking for a GPU that output's Thunderbolt, AFAIK it has never and will never be made. You would have to use the Thunderbolt port on a MB and then would only be utilizing the CPU built in graphics. And powering an Apple display will take some work and installing Bootcamp drivers.

 

[k1114]

There are a few mobos with tb or compatible with add in cards for tb. There are no adapters, no gpus, nothing to use it on a non tb device.

 

[theknet]

Many current generation motherboards support Thunderbolt. You will need to be much more specific to get good recommendations. What processor are you looking at? Are there any other requirements (number of SATA ports, CrossFire/SLI support, USB 3.0/3.1 support). More details please.

If you are just looking for a GPU that output's Thunderbolt, AFAIK it has never and will never be made. You would have to use the Thunderbolt port on a MB and then would only be utilizing the CPU built in graphics. And powering an Apple display will take some work and installing Bootcamp drivers.

Thanks for the quick reply! The requirements are simply a 'modest' gaming machine that would happily play Cities Skylines or similar. I understand I can buy a motherboard that supports thunderbolt, but would the ports utilise a PCIe graphics card attached to the same board?

 

[k1114]

No it would only use the intel igpu and there's no way around that.