![]() Many of the others do have a Thunderbolt header on the mobo, but you need a PCIe add-in card to connect to that header. ![]() Which comes to my next "issue" with the 8700, there is only one z370 motherboard that has an external Thunderbolt port, and that's an ASUS with the ITX form factor. And if you include an external monitor does that further tax the PCIe lanes, even if the monitor is connected with something like Thunderbolt. But I honestly don't know if that's true. Now I've heard that with PCIe 3.0, even the most powerful graphics cards are not going to overload PCIe x8. That means one card operating at x16, two operating at x8, or one x8 and two x4. The one thing that would give me a bit of pause is the number of PCIe lanes, which I believe is 16 total.
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