Thunderbolt Port Pictured on MSI Z77A-GD80

btarunr · Mar 7, 2012

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.

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Sihastru · Mar 7, 2012

It's not Thunderbold, it's a mini Display Port, it says so on the specification sheet in the second picture...

btarunr · Mar 7, 2012

Sihastru said:
It's not Thunderbold, it's a mini Display Port, it says so on the specification sheet in the second picture...

It's both Thunderbolt and miniDP. It's a shared interface, like on current-gen Macs.

Frick · Mar 7, 2012

Sihastru said:
it says so on the specification sheet in the second picture...

Above that the words "Thunder Bolt" are clearly visible as well.

Aquinus · Mar 7, 2012

Thunderbolt uses Mini-DisplayPort, unfortunately there much in the line of hardware that uses Thunderbolt yet, but there are a couple external RAID enclosures that use it, but you're looking at dishing out the same amount as an i7 3960x to get it. :banghead:

Sihastru · Mar 7, 2012

btarunr said:
It's both Thunderbolt and miniDP. It's a shared interface, like on current-gen Macs.

Ah, yes, silly me, I must schedule an eye exam.

MeanBruce · Mar 7, 2012

If MSI's best Z77 board supports thunderbolt, then the Asus Maximus 5 "Extreme" just has to, right? or wrong? Where is that Maximus 5 Extreme? Me wants so much!

...finally I have a reason to buy that XSPC water loop.

Athlon2K15 · Mar 7, 2012

i like how they try to cover up ivy bridge with tape

radarblade · Mar 7, 2012

It would be at least 4 years before thunderbolt comes in wide use!

mychinook · Mar 19, 2012

Thunderbolt Port compatible with Apple TB monitor?

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.

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