Melodeath Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 This may be an ignorant question... I am wanting to build a hackintosh with Thunderbolt 2 capability. I've selected a gigabyte motherboard with built-in TB2 ports, which many users have said works. You need to install the motherboard drivers under Windows in order to "activate" the thunderbolt ports for OS X. This got me thinking... Are there different Thunderbolt chipsets? Is the gigabyte TB2 port inherently different fromt he one on an iMac, for example, or are they the exact same? The reason I want thunderbolt is because I intend to use a thunderbolt audio interface. The interface itself will use its own drivers under OS X, but it will rely on a thundebrolt 2 connection to interface with the computer. The interface only supports OS X, so there are no WIndows drivers. Since the ocmpany that makes the interface only tests on Apple hardware, is it possible that even if I get thunderbolt working on my hackintosh, that it is not working 100% "accurately" in OS X? In other words, is it possible there could be tiny glitches in the audio because there is a communication issue between the audio interface and the motherboard because it is a different thunderbolt chipset from an Apple computer? Or maybe there is only one thunderbolt chipset out there? I guess my question is, while the audio interface driver would work under OS X, is it possible the connection between the OS and the interface could be "compromised" and not work right, even if the driver works correctly? I don't know enough about how thunderbolt works to know if this is a silly question, but I believe there are all sorts of USB 3 and ethernet chipsets, which cause all sorts of unexpected issues on computers, so I'm wondering if it's the same with thunderbolt, and that I would get "inaccurate" or glitchy audio through thunderbolt on a hackintosh. Thank you for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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