theconnactic Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hi! I recently had to upgrade my computer, after my motherboard went bang a couple of weeks ago. As you can see in my sig, I'm now a proud owner of an Asus Z97 Gryphon m-ATX board. One of the nicest features of it is the possibility of thunderbolt expansion via the Asus Thunderboltex II PCI-e card, for a smaller total cost than Gigabyte's competing solution, the Z97-UD7-TH. On the other hand, the UD7-TH thunderbolt port works more or less OOB under OSX - like everything Gigabyte usually does - and didn't even know the Asus card existed until very recently. So I'm now curious - did I make a good choice going Gryphon for a future thunderbolt capability without the UD7-TH's price tag? Have anyone actually tried this card with a hackintosh? If so, does it work fine, or work at all? All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I have both versions of the card. Please refer to Asus list of supported motherboards as they need the board header. Card works fine. I like both type of solutions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 I know, I bought the Gryphon because of the TB header. Since you're saying it works, the card solution seems to be better, because if I switch to, say, an Asus X99 motherboard, I'll keep the possibility of Thunderbolt connection as long as I keep the card. Thank you for the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Yep and if you have a TB Monitor you can have your powerful GPU run to it and not onboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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