GIGABYTE GC-MAPLE RIDGE Thunderbolt 4

I installed this in a Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master board. It was not hard. Yes there are a few cables. There are two small cables, a 5-pin and a 3-pin that connect to headers on the motherboard. The smaller ends connect to the motherboard, the larger ends to the card. There is also a cable to connect to a USB2.0 header (7 pins I think). Connect all of these first to the motherboard, then connect them to the card, then install the card in an available PCIe slot. For power delivery you then need to connect two 6-pin VGA/PCIe power cables from your PSU. Finally, once installed I connected two DisplayPort connections from my RTX 3070 GPU to the two inbound mini-DisplayPort connectors on this card using the included jump cables. Upon booting Windows 10 it did not recognize or have any drivers for this card. I manually installed the latest driver form Gigabyte's website and rebooted. Then Gigabyte App Center let me know it had an even newer version of the driver available, so I installed that and rebooted again and everything seemed to be working fine. After installation I set up a Cable Matters USB-C dual 4k KVM swtich. I connected my two monitors to the kvm switch and connected this Maple Ridge card to the switch with a high quality Thunderbolt 4 cable. The switch was bus powered by this card and the displays worked perfectly as soon as I turned it on. Technically this whole setup is USB-C using DisplayPort alt mode instead of true Thunderbolt 4, but this Maple Ridge card was the only way to enable this particular kvm configuration on my PC. This card should work fine with any TB4 hub or usb-c hub/switch for displays, peripherals and storage as well. So for me this card wasn't hard to install and setup, and I had zero problems or issues using it with one of the latest Gigabyte Intel motherboards.