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Sound Cards & Coax Digital Out

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kanan

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I'm looking to upgrade my sound card. My speakers have the traditional front and back stereo in ports, as well as a coax digital in. I'd like to be able to use the coax digital in to play games in surround and such, so that each channel is digital and discrete using that method. Is there any sound card that supports this for games, and not just for DVDs? If so, what is it? It also came with some sort of minijack digital to coax converter, which could be used.

If it is not possible to use the digital port for surround sound gaming, what sound card should I get and just use the other two ports?

Thanks.
 
What sound card do you have and what speakers.

The only sound card that can take 2 channel sound from a game send it out digitally to multiple speakers it the soundstorm chip found on Nforce2 motherboards. Does a really nice job of creating a 5.1 sound field. But you will need a receiver or some type of device that will take a digital connection.

 
I have an onboard soundcard. I don't recall the company name, but I'm sure it is not what you described. I really would like to upgrade, although my onboard one does mix sound better than I thought it would. My speakers are Altec Lansing 885s, which are basically the 890s, except the color is different. They have a problem doing the twin analog stereo connections, according to the review here, so I wanted to use the digital s/pdif coax connector. But, the dolby digital mode sounds good I've been told, I just don't have a sound card yet to hook it up with.
 
You could pick up a turtle beach santa cruz for around $40-50 maybe even cheaper. It has front and rear outputs, a digital coax output as well as a versa jack. So you could even add headphones in the loop without adding any splitters or changing any wires. It also supports 6.1 surround sound. Best card I have ever owned
 
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