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   #42. Posted at 02:47 PM on Apr 22nd 2009 Edit   Reply
jinjuku
I hate to revive an old thread. Just as an FYI, you don't need a receiver if you use this card. You can get a 5 or 7 channel amp and feed it directly from the analog out. The card will have already done the decode.
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   #41. Posted at 04:33 AM on Nov 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
7POINT1toRECVR4GMES
I would like to know if this card will pass full, crisp, clean 7.1 audio from my PC to my receiver. I have a 7.1 surround sound system for my home theater, which my PC is connected to. I use my Pioneer Elite 50" Plasma as my "monitor" and right now I have a Creative X-Fi Fatality Titanium edition that has optical out on the card itself. I run that optical out to my Pioneer Elite receiver to get surround sound for Games, however I am unable to get it to play in 7.1. Creatives software recognizes 7.1, and allows me to set up my speaker config that way, however I get no sound out of both my rear channels. I am assuming that the optical connection can only pass 5.1 and no more... can anyone verify this?

If this card, can plug in my pc in place of my Creative X-Fi titanium, and output 7.1 surround sound via HDMI 1.3 to my receiver for all my games I would buy it in a heartbeat. In fact, I would most likely purchase an internal Blue Ray player for my PC as well so I can watch Blue Rays off my PC, rather than my PS3 which is stuck at 5.1 via an optical cable.

Can anyone confirm that this card will output 7.1, and work like a normal sound card? I already have 2 x XFX GTX280's running in SLI, so I dont really want this thing messing with my video, unless its harmless and doesnt get in the way of my two top end video cards. What exactly does it do for PC's like mine that already have top notch video output?

Any help with this would be wonderful. Just yesterday I upgraded my receiver from an 8 year old Harman Kardon AVR520 5.1 receiver to the Pioneer Elite 7.1 THX receiver, and I found out that although my Creative X-Fi titanium will output to my receiver via an optical cable that plugs directly into the back of the card, it wont seem to see the two rear channels for full 7.1.

I WANT 7.1 SURROUND SOUND FOR ALL MY GAMES, AND I ALREADY HAVE 2 x GTX280 VIDEO CARDS RUNNING IN SLI - WILL THIS CARD WORK WITH MY SYSTEM AND GIVE ME FULL 7.1 SURROUND FOR ALL MY GAMES? Help Please!!!
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   #8. Posted at 10:24 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
albundy
how would this work on a receiver? Can receivers in general use 2 hdmi ports at the same time? someone needs to get creative some support sticks, as i hear knees shaking. would be nice if speaker manufacturers start using hdmi, heck even wireless hdmi would be sweet.
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#8, Presumable you would run audio separately from video.  :  Usacomp2k3  (#11)  «
#11, I think it'd be more like the computer is the receiver. A...  :  titan  (#12)  «
#8, HDMI for speakers? What? Do you really want to pay for a dec...  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#16)  «
#16, I think he means your typical "computer speaker" manufact...  :  squeezee  (#17)  «
#17, Still... "computer speakers" are so shite, who cares w...  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#30)  «
#30, shite? you mean like the Klipsch Pro Media 5.1 and ...  :  albundy  (#34)  «
#34, Yes.. it's all relative.  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#36)  «
#36, Relative to having way too much money investe...  :  ludi  (#39)  «
#39, Too much money invested? It's all relative...  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#40)  «
#8, Since there's an input and an output, presumably your video ...  :  deruberhanyok  (#24)  «

   #9. Posted at 10:46 PM on Jun 3rd 2008, Edited at 10:46 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
Kurotetsu
Does card output ONLY digital audio from the HDMI port, or can it do that and video+audio like normal HDMI? How would it interact with the video card to that?

Also, is there some sort revival for high quality stereo sound cards? It seems I'm seeing them mentioned more often than normal.
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#9, It says that one HDMI port is an input and the other is an o...  :  Anonymous Hamster  (#20)  «
#20, That would mean that the HDMI ports on this would have to...  :  Kurotetsu  (#28)  «
#20, +9# presumably, but i like a comfirm on that before i wou...  :  wulfher  (#37)  «
#9, "Asus claims the chip enhances colors and edges for high-def...  :  MattMojo  (#38)  «

   #14. Posted at 11:34 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
Kaleid
Before they release all these soundcards they should work on better drivers for the current ones. EAX support is poor at this moment and some engines even crash if you enable it.
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#14, Wow, it works exactly like a Creative Labs card then... ;)  :  BRiT  (#35)  «

   #6. Posted at 10:11 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
Voldenuit
Ribbon cable is more flexible (haha) than a gold finger bridge.

It would be nice if they ditched the dummy pcie connector on the daughter card, though. That way, users could install it in a free legacy PCI slot if they wanted to.
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#6, Hacksaw?  :  Dissonance  (#13)  «
#6, How do you know you can't plug it into a PCI slot?  :  Anonymous Hamster  (#21)  «
#21, Because they are keyed differently: http://www.naplestech....  :  Sahrin  (#25)  «
#25, If you look carefully at the above pictures, you'll no...  :  Anonymous Hamster  (#33)  «
#6, I think a dummy slot connector is for support reasons. So I ...  :  Flying Fox  (#26)  «
#26, Most likely but I was thinking about spacing issues on so...  :  vdreadz  (#29)  «

   #1. Posted at 08:37 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
Egads. A ribbon cable to connect to a daughter card? It's 199X all over again.
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#1, You have a better idea?  :  bthylafh  (#2)  «
#2, Two, in fact: 1) Give the smaller daughter card PCIe x1 co...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#5)  «
#5, yeah, but that would force you to lose a pci/e slot.  :  albundy  (#7)  «
#7, Because it apparently doesn't do that already.  :  Meadows  (#18)  «
#18, of course not. the daughterboard is not powered ...  :  albundy  (#32)  «
#5, It's hard to make out some of the details on the back ...  :  ludi  (#19)  «
#19, Dang, I guess I can't argue with that. So it sounds...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#22)  «
#22, Now THERE is a vivid analogy. And yeah, I rememb...  :  ludi  (#31)  «

   #27. Posted at 08:20 AM on Jun 4th 2008 Edit   Reply
MattMojo
I have a Xonar in my HTPC and love it! The sound is absolutely great going to my receiver and the ability to "on-the-fly" encode in Dolby Digital for those programs that do not do DD is fantastic!!

Mojo
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   #4. Posted at 09:50 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
I don't like the idea of my sound card fracking with my video output. Shades of Voodoo2 ghosty and blurred video passthough come to mind.

Not sure how well all this funky hardware would support the non-Windows crowd, either.
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#4, Well you won't get any ghosting or blurred video considering...  :  squeezee  (#15)  «
#15, I'd be more worried about future driver updates that make...  :  Ashbringer  (#23)  «

   #10. Posted at 10:47 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
fantastic
Dear manufacturers,

Please release power consumption numbers with all new equipment.

Thanks,
John Q. Public

My HTPC is working fine with onboard sound and the X-Fi is functional for the "gaming computer".

It is nice to see them using HDMI and PCIe though.
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   #3. Posted at 09:45 PM on Jun 3rd 2008 Edit   Reply
DrDillyBar
Now I have to choose between tweaking my car, or buying a Harmon Karden. Great looking card(s). Hope whatever that video processing is doesn't conflict with my Catalyst software... *adds to wish list*
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