ASRock offers ThunderBolt 3 Expansion card for ASRock 200 series

ASRock is to release a more a affordable  Thunderbolt 3 expansion card called, Thunderbolt 3 AIC. The anticipated selling price is around 7,380 yen excluding vat which is about 67 USD and 60 euros. The unit holds two Thunderbolt 3 ports with a bandwidth of 40 Gbps.

The expansion card can add 2 port Thunderbolt 3 to the ASRock 200 series motherboard with a specific "TB1" header, which really is a PCI-Express 3.0 (x4) slot.

The card makes use of a Intel JHL 6540 controller and supports up to six daisy chained units. Specific compatible boards are "Z270M Extreme 4" "Z270 Extreme 4" "Z270 Taichi" "Z270 Pro4" "Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7" "Fatal1ty Z270 GamingK6" "Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K4" "Fatal1ty H270 Performance" "H270 Pro4" "Fatal1ty B250 Gaming K4 "" B250 PRo4", thus a total of 11 models.

External Ports

2 x Thunderbolt
3 Type-C Ports (with up to 40 Gbps bandwidth)
Supports daisy-chaining of up to six Thunderbolt devices
1 x DisplayPort IN Port
1 x Mini DisplayPort IN Port
1 x TBT Header

Data Transfer Rate

Supports 40 Gbps bi-directional bandwidth per channel with Thunderbolt 3 port

Operating Systems Supported

Microsoft Windows 10 32-bit / 10 64-bit / 8 32-bit / 8 64-bit

Specifications

PCI Express 3.0 x4 interface
Supports ThunderboltTM 3 interface with max. resolution of 5K (5120 x 2880)@ 60 Hz for one display over a single cable connection
Supports ThunderboltTM 3 interface with max. resolution of 4K x 2K (4096x2160) @ 60 Hz for dual displays over a single cable connection Supports up to two streams (eight lanes) of DisplayPort video bandwidth; supports daisy-chaining of multiple DisplayPort monitors