Want to have your mobo cake now and eat the Thunderbolt later? Asus is there for you with its new Thunderbolt EX Upgrade card -- as long as you buy, or have bought, certain of its 7-series motherboards. The supported models have a "unique system link connector" to cable to the upgrade card, which will gobble up one of your PCIe x4 slots and use a DisplayPort to serve up the 'bolt. So if you don't feel like laying the cash down now and don't mind giving up ports later, pass-through the break to see which models will work.

Continue reading Asus offers Thunderbolt upgrade card for some 7-series motherboards

Asus offers Thunderbolt upgrade card for some 7-series motherboards originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.