NUC Support for USB C / Thunderbolt 3?

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Hi

Trying to find out if the USB C / Thunderbolt 3 port works with ROCK?

Anyone tried it recently?

Found an old post from @danny that mentioned it not being supported yet in 2017 but not found anything else.

Anyone?

Thanks

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Nothing noted of it with any timeline…so I would not rely on it.

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Thank you :slight_smile:

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It does not yet. Still waiting on stable drivers from Intel.

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Wow, that’s taking time.

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I would have said they gave up but then the 8th generation devices all shipped with thunderbolt too.

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There have been a few firmware updates flying around, shame they haven’t worked on the drivers too.

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Sadly, I think Intel assumes Windows 10 is the only OS users will ever run on the NUCs…

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@support,

Hello, when are you planning to add usb type C support in Nucleus?
I know that correct drivers doesn’t exist, but how long should we wait, an year or more?

I bought very expensive USB type C cable and use it with cheap Baseus adapter which causes SQ loss.

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What USB C cable did you buy?

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Not until the NuC boards the Nucleus is based on support it would be my guess and the current stock they use is no longer available.

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Nordost Frey 2

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Understood thank you

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Hi @Vladimir_Tereshchenk,

At this time there’s been no change in status, and we’re still not confident a stable drive exists.

This could change in the future, but for the moment we are not hopefully we’ll be able to enable the USB-C port on Roon OS devices.

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Dear Noris,
Thank you!

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It’s been a while…is there any change in status for this? Looking to run optical from my NUC ROCK to my switch. Probably better to look for a ROCK server with built-in SFP but just got my NUC/Rock and love it. Also fairly new to Roon. Am adding opticalRendu with Ubiquity switches and would love end to end optical. Better to just put something like a Gtech media converter in place?

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I use a Unifi SW24 port with 2 x SFP at the other end I have an EtherREGEN one on of the SFP ports using FS.com 1GB SFP modules supporting a Lumin D1 and I also have used an FS.com FMC 1GB with the same SFP modules to my other Lumin D2. I will likely do the same using a 2 x FMC pair for my other Lumin D1

the fibre connections are a little easier for me to squeeze through my floor access hole than UTP/STP lan cables without reterminating one end of the RJ45.

Does it sound any different - I can’t honestly say, but it doesn’t sound any worse.

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