Is this the right cable?

[Deptacon]

Is this the right cable for digital out on my NEC 3520a? bought oem and didint have one. still need a line out to i guess...

http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=12-102-106&depa=1

 

[Deptacon]

guess it is a really stupid question

 

[Gerbil333]

Why do you need one? I haven't used any cables with my CD/CD-RW/DVD-RW drives since 1998 and they play and rip CDs digitally.

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

... those things are obsolete.. and no longer needed.

 

[LTC8K6]

Those audio cables have in fact been obsolete for many years now. It's been a long time since I have seen one in use.

Go to each of your CD and DVD drives in device manager. Right click on them, and under the properties tab, check the option for enabling digital audio.

Voila! No more audio cables needed.

There are undoubtedly a whole lot of people using the cables when they don't need to. Worse yet, there are probably lots of people with both D/A turned on, and the cables plugged in, so the cables are there but doing nada.

 

[Deptacon]

oh ok, see, i havent built a comp in about 4 yrs so.... i didnt get the memo