GIGABYTE Offers Another Free Thunderbolt™ 3 Upgrade
GIGABYTE surprises users with more value on GIGABYTE Motherboards
Aug 25, 2016
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Taipei, Taiwan, August 25th, 2016 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is proud to announce today, a new collection of GIGABYTE Motherboards that have been certified for Intel’s® Thunderbolt™ 3 technology. GIGABYTE is the leader in developing this technology as many devices in the market were created using GIGABYTE Motherboards as the golden sample.
Shortly after its release of the new designare and ultra gaming motherboards GIGABYTE is announcing that many of these newly released boards have Thunderbolt™ 3 technology available to the users. Updating the BIOS and a simple software upgrade is all that is required of users to enable this feature. With a 40 Gb/s bandwidth, along with its ability to transmit data, video, audio, and power all in one cable, Thunderbolt technology is highly sought after for its rapid transfer speeds and ability to simplify cables around the computer. Users are able to daisy-chain up to six devices per port with an additional monitor at the end.
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In addition, GIGABYTE is also officially debuting the world’s first front panel Thunderbolt™ 3 drive bay. This bay can be installed in a 5.25” expansion slot and has support for Power Delivery 2.0, up to 100 watts. Users will also get the benefit of having USB 3.1 support in both Type-A as well as Type-C connections.
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All of these features and products will be available to the public by the beginning of September 2016, for more information on how to get your motherboard Thunderbolt™ enabled please check on the GIGABYTE website.
For more details on GIGABYTE Motherboards that support Thunderbolt™ 3:
GIGABYTE Motherboards already certified with Thunderbolt™ 3 | ||
GA-X99P-SLI | GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 | GA-Z170X-Gaming GT |
GA-Z170X-Gaming 7/-EK | GA-Z170X-UD5 TH | GA-X170-Extreme ECC |
New Models with Thunderbolt™ 3 | ||
GA-X99-Designare EX | GA-Z170X-Designare | GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming |
GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra | GA-X170-WS ECC | GA-H170-Designare |
Thunderbolt™ 3 Accessories | ||
GP-TBT3 Bay | ||
GC-ALPINE RIDGE |
To learn more about GIGABYTE: http://www.gigabyte.com/
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