This corporate attitude is horribly wrong on so many levels. I strongly believe that there's no such thing as "not enough people reporting". When absolutely simple things such as TB1/2 devices doesn't work properly due to incomplete/wrong implementation of Titan Ridge chip in this motherboard. Maybe it wasn't worth marketing the Z390 Designare as an ultimate Thunderbolt solution, with all those shiny 40gpbs speeds, 8k, up to 12 devices and etc. They breaking the technology and refuse to acknowledge it. Titan Ridge, at least in current Gigabyte's implementation, doesn't seem to properly do this. Maybe it wasn't worth releasing new Thunderbolt motherboards if their engineers can't implement the technology properly and completely in line with Intel Thunderbolt requirements and guidelines.īoth me and stephen already confirmed, that accordingly to Intel specs, Thunderbolt technology should support previous gen devices without any issues. I tend to agree with you terabyte, it seems like it is way too niche for Gigabyte to care about anything. But they don't want to acknowledge the problems. Sure, currently there's something really wrong with Z390 Designare and its Thunderbolt implementation (BIOS, firmware, settings).
In my conversation with Intel Thunderbolt team engineers I was told that Titan Ridge should support all devices and there are no any "blocks" which may prevent older devices from being connected.
Because Titan Ridge is the most recent Intel's Thunderbolt controller and it should support all generations of devices connected to it. They say it is not designed to work with older TB1/2 devices through any adapters, because Titan Ridge on this motherboard only works in native mode with TB3 devices and doesn't support legacy mode. Gigabyte refuses to confirm the issue and keep telling me that it is hardware limitation of Titan Ridge controller.
It just doesn't work at all and display stays black all the time (even in No Security mode). Currently I'm experiencing the similar issues with my Z390 Designare and Apple Thunderbolt Display.
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