Thunderbolt on Z6 or Z8

[TAD005]

Hi People,

Working towards purchasing a Z6 or Z8 but unable to locate a Thunderbolt 3 (or even 2) card for the workstations. I have been informed that HP are not configuring these workstartions with this port. True?

Regards

Andrew

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

They will come

   Thunderbolt™ 3 PCIe card support available the first half of 2018

as from the following information

     http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c05527763.pdf

Regards.

[TAD005]

Thanks very much:-)

[aegis47]

Any word on Thunderbolt 3 support?

[DGroves]

the HP driver site for the Z6 contains the nessary intel Thunderbolt drivers, and i have read that the gigabyte alpine ridge based Thunderbolt card works in the Z6

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Thunderbolt-Components-GC-ALPINE-RIDGE/dp/B0722SV69N

note also that if you have a TB 3 based card, and want to use a TB2 based device, you may need a adapter , so keep this in mind!

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thunderbolt-Adapter-Macbook-Compatible/dp/B019FPJDQ2

[Nick-J]

The Z6 G4 does not support the Gigabyte Thunderbolt 3 card. The internal cable that connects to the motherboard uses a different connector. They are not compatible.

[DGroves]

the gigabyte card is a (alpine ridge card) which itself is compatable, however gigabyte uses a diffrent pinout on their thunderbolt motherboard header that is not the same as the HP pinout most likely

if you wish to use the gigabyte card on a HP system you will need the HP cable instead of the gigabyte one, or make your own which might be hard if hp has not documented the  TBollt header on the z8/z4 workstations

the "thunderbolt card's" header is the same  for HP/Dell/gigabyte/Asus since they all use the intel thunderboard reference (alpine ridge) design  it's the motherboard pin connections that differ, the signals are the same, just on diffrent pin locations.

the original HP TBolt 2 card is marked F3F43AT and is a reference intel design card 

the newer HP TBolt 3 card is also a reference intel design card (alpine ridge)

in fact, i've yet to see a custom TBolt card for the PC, everything has been based on the intel card(s) with only the tbolt connector's pinout on each makers motherboard being diffrent. most newer intel chipsets based on the x99 or newer

support thunderbolt, but it's up to the MB maker if they wish to enable TBolt support via the MB header/pci-e card, or intergrated directly into the motherboard (no card needed)

last, i don't know if hp has even released their TBolt card for the z4/z8 systems yet (it' s set for fst quarter 2018)

[Nick-J]

Z4 G4, Z6 G4, and Z8 G4 can be configured to order with a Thunderbolt 3 card right now. Other websites show the Thunderbolt 3 card as "coming soon". The part number of the card is 3UU05AA.

[TravisD1]

Do you know if the HP Z8 is compatible with a Asrock Thunderbolt 3AIC card? The pinout for the TBT hearder does not fit the pinout on the motherboard