Interested in buying a reform at some point in the near future and was wondering if anyone has or tried adding a thunderbolt 40gbps port to theirs. I have an EGPU dock I use with my current laptop as well as other devices that use thunderbolt. Any help or ideas would be great.
I have not done this, and it does sound interesting, but I do have a relevant data point! I’ve got a laptop with USB 4 ports that seems to work just fine with an old thunderbolt 3 EGPU I have. I don’t think any of the current reform CPU cards have USB 4, but that might be easier to achieve than thunderbolt, depending on the specifics of your dock?
It’s an ADT-Link UT3G, I have it in an enclosure with its own power supply so it wouldn’t need anything other than just a stable 40gbps connection.