Adding Thunderbolt to Windows PC

Hello Everyone,
 
I was looking to buy an Apollo audio interface.  They come with Thunderbolt ports and I need a Thunderbolt port on my Windows PC.  I looked around on the web and found very little information.   Is this possible?   I see there are a few Thunderbolt cards out there but it seems like they are only compatible with very few motherboards.
 
Was wondering if anyone has added Thunderbolt to their Windows PC or knows how?

Thanks!
Adam

Asking here so others might also benefit, if that's over the line feel free to tell me to go pound sand!
 
I currently have an ASRock Z97 Extreme motherboard with an Intel i7-4790 CPU and 32 GB of DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 memory. I am using an Apollo Twin USB interface.
 
For obvious reasons I want to keep as much of this system as possible, the CPU is no slouch, and if I need more memory I'll end up building a second "slave" machine.

There is an ASRock (no strong preference for brand, except that it is working and I'm used to it) Fatal1ty Z97 Killer motherboard that still supports the LGA 1150 socket, and appears to support the I7-4790 CPU, it also supports my existing memory. And it has the Thunderbolt 3 AIC header. AHA! On top of that they also make a Thunderbolt AIC3 card. See where I'm headed?
 
Are there any reasons to stay away from this motherboard? Known problems?
 
Will this configuration work with an Apollo Thunderbolt interface (probably the 8 or 8p)?
 
Thanks,
 
Bill

I figured it couldn't be quite that easy, the whole 2 vs 3 vs PCI vs USB-C vs godzilla thing continues to confuse me. I guess I need to do my homework for real. Sorry for the slow pitch!

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I figured it couldn't be quite that easy, the whole 2 vs 3 vs PCI vs USB-C vs godzilla thing continues to confuse me. I guess I need to do my homework for real. Sorry for the slow pitch!

 I have similar specs and avoid the idea of T-Bolt.  I don't think it will be a popular platform for Windows and most of it is pricey.  I wont need that kind of performance. I'd would just buy a RME Babyface and be done with it for me.

I just bypassed the problem entirely and went with Waves and Digigrid.

The hardware is compatible with anything, it runs its own very well written ASIO driver and the audio passes via standard Ethernet from you PC to any of the hardware in the system from IO to plugin DSP servers. So it takes the load of your native CPU. I can use a Digigrid server to do the Waves plugin processing. The front end of the Digigrid IO is no slouch either running the super duper cool preamps from the top line Digico SD series.

I had already made a big commitment in Waves plugins, I have them all so even though this is not cheap it's very easy to setup and you can grow the system as you need. The only real draw back is cost for the hardware and that you need Waves plugins. Their Soundgrid plugin standard is open to all, but only a few of the high hitter plugin developers like Sonnox and Brainwork have come on board. I already mentioned cost but if you're looking at UAD hardware, cost clearly doesn't scare you.