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Cheap TV speakers deserve the cheapest sound card

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Niku

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I have a secondary lanning/media computer that is without HDMI enabled sound. What is a cheap video card that will allow me to get audio to pass through to the LCD TV speakers through a GTS 250? what am i actually looking for?

My main computer with a GTX 280 has an x58 board with a 6 pin header on the board for this. THAT i had instructions for, but a lot of these cheap cards have 3 or 4 pin spdif which i don't think will work. if i knew what exactly i should ask for i would google it my self, but if its not spdif, then i don't know what to look for.
 
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does the GTS 250 not have spdif in? or does the mobo not have spdif out? im not understanding the problem.

Also the above suggestion will work, why bother passing the audio over HDMI for a cheap TV speaker anyways.
 
If you just dont wanna use onboard audio, go for a cheap Turtle Beach sound card.
I personally dont use the HDMI on my video card.
 
Oh, jesus, did i say video card? I meant sound card. I cannot find SPDIF header on my MSI P965 neo. The GTS 250 has the header. Hell, i have an 8400 GS with a proper input header. I just need a Cheapy McCheaperson noise card for some seriously crappy LCD TV speakers.

BassBomb said:
uhmmm why dont you use onboard sound? and then use stereo mini to rca
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HDMI does not accept external sound source on this TV. It wants the audio provided by the HDMI cable. All else fails, ill buy a cheap set of speakers and be done with this. Just carry them from room to room with the computer.
 
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Niku said:
Oh, jesus, did i say video card? I meant sound card. I cannot find SPDIF header on my MSI P965 neo. The GTS 250 has the header.
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It sounded like you were asking for a video card that would natively pass HDMI audio. What's the model number on your motherboard?
 
So yeah. I have given up on the motherboard. SPDIF pin out on a cheapy cheap cheaper cheapity sound card. like a price of $20 or less would be great. Any one have one they can recommend? any one SEE one they wouldn't recommend?
 
Unless I'm missing something here, I think what people were asking you is why are you trying to set up an audio connection via internal SPDIF/HDMI rather than just a simple analog connection via your onboard sound, or virtually ANY cheap sound card? Especially for cheap TV speakers. Does your TV have analog (RCA or 1/8th) inputs for audio?
 
If the TV has analog ins you may need to set the name of the Hdmi input to PC to get the analog audio assigned to that Hdmi (as is the case with many Mits tv's).

But, I think any sound card with a digital coax out should work, you don't NEED the internal header (I' guessing). All the header would be is 2 pins, 1 for data (Center pin of RCA) and one for ground (shield of RCA). You may even be able to chop up a cheap RCA and and attach the needed connector to one end to connect to the Video cards SPDIF in. This is all a bit of an assumption because I haven't used a SPDIF header since I had an Iwill xp333-r way back in the day and have not had an nVidia card since 2005 so someone correct me if I am wrong.

EDIT: This thread on AVSforum is exactly what I am talking about.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=999877
 
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I assume you want to get your pc audio mixed into the HDMI so it can all use the same cable and output sound on the TV ?

The GTS250 should have come with a cable that has two wires. One is ground the other data. Even if you were to reverse the wires by mistake it would not hurt anything, it just wouldn't work. Any sound card can be used that has spdif coax outputs.
 
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