Thunderbolt ports on motherboards and Firewire Devices on Windows

[Guest]

Hi,

I am noticing that many motherboard are now not featuring Firewire which is a disaster for me as I have a external FW sound card.

I am thinking of building a mini itx system and wondered if it is possible to connect a FW soundcard to a Thunderbolt port using a converter such as

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD464ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter

but on a Windows 7 64 system.

Is TB to FW a bad idea like USB to FW converters where you are not actually using the FW bus, just some dodgy conversion?

Any experiences?

Also any mini-itx boards with FW that could be reccommended would be great.

Thanks

 

[alexoiu]

Hi,
Not sure about the Thunderbolt to IEEE adapter. It seems it works with Mac.
Newegg lists only one mini ITX LGA 1155 board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121597

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Not sure about the Thunderbolt to IEEE adapter. It seems it works with Mac.
Newegg lists only one mini ITX LGA 1155 board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121597

Thanks for this. Seems like the perfect solution then.

 

[maarkr]

Hi,
Not sure about the Thunderbolt to IEEE adapter. It seems it works with Mac.
Newegg lists only one mini ITX LGA 1155 board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121597

Thanks for this. Seems like the perfect solution then.

Now it's late 2014 and was wondering if you bought a mobo with thunderbolt and successfully used an apple adapter for the firewire soundcard? hardly ANY firewire boards out there any more.