Is it possible to hook this up to my computer and xbox

[Running]

I was wondering if i can hook this up to my xbox while having it hooked up to my x-fi card

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I would be using these to hook the soundcard to the receiver Text

thanks

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Looks like it. You can select inputs through the receiver so it should be no problem.

 

[Running]

alright, sounds good thanks

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Uhhh... does that "receiver" have a 5.1 analog input?

I'm seeing 3 digital audio inputs and one stereo analog input?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Uhhh... does that "receiver" have a 5.1 analog input?

I'm seeing 3 digital audio inputs and one stereo analog input?

it doesn't

 

[Running]

wait so is it not going to work?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Running
wait so is it not going to work?

not from your XFI to get multichannel audio from games and movies using anything except standard DTS or Dolby Digital.

 

[Running]

ah ok thanks for clarifying that for me.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Running
wait so is it not going to work?

not from your XFI to get multichannel audio from movies.

Well for DD / DTS encoded movies, you could hook up digitally from the X-Fi if you know what cable you need to do so for your particular X-Fi model and you should be able to get that going.

For games though, you'd be out of luck from the computer system.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Running
wait so is it not going to work?

not from your XFI to get multichannel audio from movies.

Well for DD / DTS encoded movies, you could hook up digitally from the X-Fi if you know what cable you need to do so for your particular X-Fi model and you should be able to get that going.

For games though, you'd be out of luck from the computer system.

I should have been more clear...

If you watch HD movies and want TrueHD audio you can't get it this way. That's what I was thinking because it's what I was worried about when setting up my system.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

Yep. He'll only get stereo sound. If he's expecting more he'll have to drop a bit more cash, unless his motherboard already has an optical out built-in (3 of my PCs have it via the onboard sound), then he can use that instead.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

Yep. He'll only get stereo sound. If he's expecting more he'll have to drop a bit more cash, unless his motherboard already has an optical out built-in (3 of my PCs have it via the onboard sound), then he can use that instead.

And if it's one of the newer DDL capable solutions it would work for gaming.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

Yep. He'll only get stereo sound. If he's expecting more he'll have to drop a bit more cash, unless his motherboard already has an optical out built-in (3 of my PCs have it via the onboard sound), then he can use that instead.

And if it's one of the newer DDL capable solutions it would work for gaming.

No EAX though which is the only reason to have an XFI.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

Yep. He'll only get stereo sound. If he's expecting more he'll have to drop a bit more cash, unless his motherboard already has an optical out built-in (3 of my PCs have it via the onboard sound), then he can use that instead.

And if it's one of the newer DDL capable solutions it would work for gaming.

No EAX though which is the only reason to have an XFI.

Well I haven't been playing too close attention to the integrated DDL solutions, but I'd guess they're EAX 2.0 capable and as much as I'm not really a creative fan, I think there's more than EAX levels to why the X-Fi is a good card

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You can hook them both up because you aren't limited to analog. Use the flexijack optical out on the X-Fi. The receiver has two optical inputs so you can connect both systems via those inputs.

And that will work unless you're worried about surround sound from PC gaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1940133&enterthread=y

Yep. He'll only get stereo sound. If he's expecting more he'll have to drop a bit more cash, unless his motherboard already has an optical out built-in (3 of my PCs have it via the onboard sound), then he can use that instead.

And if it's one of the newer DDL capable solutions it would work for gaming.

No EAX though which is the only reason to have an XFI.

Well I haven't been playing too close attention to the integrated DDL solutions, but I'd guess they're EAX 2.0 capable and as much as I'm not really a creative fan, I think there's more than EAX levels to why the X-Fi is a good card

The Realtek ALC888 is EAX 1.0 & 2.0 "compatible." Supposedly it doesn't work properly in some games (like BF2) but I haven't really noticed.

You might be surprised how close in performance the ALC888 is to the X-Fi too. For an integrated solution it's pretty impressive.