Recommended Thunderbolt PCIe card For Zimacube N-100?

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Which Thunderbolt PCIe card(s) is/are recommended by Icewhale for the Zimacube N-100?

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I could be wrong but TB doesn’t work that way, you can’t add a TB PCIE adapter unless a) the CPU supports TB and b)there is also a TB header on the motherboard.

I am pretty certain that a) the N100 doesn’t support TB and b) there is no header on the mobo.

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@scyto Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that.

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Yeah TB3 / TB4 and USB4 are quite confusing.

For example, TB4 is really just TB3+USB4+Mandatory use of all USB4 features + certification.

USB4 can vary in the number of features so USB4 != TB4 … so people buy USB4 thinking they will get the same as TB4 but often they don’t because only some of the USB4 gets implemented (the mandatory parts, not the optional parts).

It is key that USB4 says USB4-40 to know you get TB4 equivalency.

Thanks intel / usb consortium.