Can i put an Asus ThunderboltEX 3-TR expansion card in my HP Z620 Workstation?

[pdanelatos]

Please can anybody tell me if i can put an Asus Thunderbolt EX 3-TR expansion card in my HP Z620 Workstation? I want a thunderbolt slot for an apple monitor. It seems to be a PCIe 3.0 card. Is there free slot? And is it ok with PCIe 3? Or tell me another solution to do that.

Thank you very much.

[DGroves]

well yes you can install any pci-e card that physically fits into your z620, will said card work?

well that's another question entirely 

your post should say, "will a an Asus ThunderboltEX 3-TR card work in my z620?" and i'm sorry to say that the answer is mostly a big NO,......  the HP z820/z620 systems had thunderbolt 2 added rather late in the production process as such both systems have a wonky setup that requires the tbolt card to be in a specific slot so when the bios sees this specific card it configures the two motherboard usb ports for TBolt signals

it might be possible to install a TBolt 3 card into a Zx20 system if you can find the HP specific TBolt cable

you would the need to hope the asus TBolt card's firmware initializes on the HP system i suspect it will as most TBolt cards are based off of the intel reference TBolt card

better Idea:

if workable, buy a hp TBolt 2 card/cable kit and run a  TBolt 2 to 3 adapter to the monitor