Tuesday, March 6th 2012

Thunderbolt Port Pictured on MSI Z77A-GD80
At last, we're getting to see visuals of MSI's top LGA1155 motherboard based on Intel Z77 chipset, the Z77A-GD80, featuring Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect. Thunderbolt is a unified interconnect that provides 10 Gb/s of raw bus bandwidth to connected devices, and passes through digital display. The connector itself resembles mini-DisplayPort. On the Z77A-GD80, the Thunderbolt port is located below a D-Sub connector. Naturally, is passes both 10 Gb/s Thunderbolt (which can be daisy-chained through multiple bandwidth-hungry devices), and display relayed from Intel processor-integrated graphics. Lucid VirtuMVP lets you harness the pixel-crunching power of your favourite discrete graphics card over this port, as well.
Source:
HardwareInfo
9 Comments on Thunderbolt Port Pictured on MSI Z77A-GD80
...finally I have a reason to buy that XSPC water loop.
Does this motherboard support Apple thunderbolt display?
Does windows 7 have driver support for this?
I tried windows 7 on macbook pro(bootcamp), but the support from windows 7 is limited and no daisychain.