what motherboards have the ALC882D audio chipset?

[crazycarl]

I notice that the Abit AT8 has it, but I'm wondering what other boards have this audio chipset. It seems like it could be a worthy successor to Soundstorm (peace be upon it...)

 

[crazycarl]

it seems all the amd ones have ati chipsets... any hope on an nvidia chipset mobo in the pipeline for this?

 

[Heidfirst]

That's because the current nForce chipsets don't support HD audio - but the next generation does & you will see that on AM2 boards.
It's then upto the mobo mfrs to pair it with a codec. Given that Abit are already using it I would say that it's a fair bet that their AM2 boards will as well.

 

[ND40oz]

This SLI x16 board has double digital from the onboard soundblaster solution. It won't do real time digital encoding like soundstorm, but you always have the analogue outs.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: ND40oz
This SLI x16 board has double digital from the onboard soundblaster solution. It won't do real time digital encoding like soundstorm, but you always have the analogue outs.

See, but that's exactly what the OP is not looking for. He wants the real-time dolby digital encoding so he can use a digital link to his reciever.

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: ND40oz
This SLI x16 board has double digital from the onboard soundblaster solution. It won't do real time digital encoding like soundstorm, but you always have the analogue outs.

See, but that's exactly what the OP is not looking for. He wants the real-time dolby digital encoding so he can use a digital link to his reciever.

No board but Soundstorm based boards have this. You need to buy an HDA card if you want it in a newer system. They are currently the only consumer sound cards that encode dolby digital for toslink/coax passthrough to a receiver.

OP is this what you are trying to do?

 

[crazycarl]

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: ND40oz
This SLI x16 board has double digital from the onboard soundblaster solution. It won't do real time digital encoding like soundstorm, but you always have the analogue outs.

See, but that's exactly what the OP is not looking for. He wants the real-time dolby digital encoding so he can use a digital link to his reciever.

yes this is exactly what i want to do.
there seems to be a very small # of motherboards with this capability currently, so i might be forced to buy a secondary card :-/

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: ND40oz

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: ND40oz
This SLI x16 board has double digital from the onboard soundblaster solution. It won't do real time digital encoding like soundstorm, but you always have the analogue outs.

See, but that's exactly what the OP is not looking for. He wants the real-time dolby digital encoding so he can use a digital link to his reciever.

No board but Soundstorm based boards have this. You need to buy an HDA card if you want it in a newer system. They are currently the only consumer sound cards that encode dolby digital for toslink/coax passthrough to a receiver.

OP is this what you are trying to do?

There are a couple boards that do this other then Soundstorm, you just have to look around. Intel's HD audio codec (which has DDL) is on a few boards. In fact, here's Abit's offerings with Intel HD audio.

There doesn't seem to be much with HD Audio on the AMD side, OP. What exactly, is wrong with the AT8? It seems to be a capable board.

Edit: for ND40oz: Turtle Beach and DiamondMM both make a DDL soundcard. In fact, I was eyeing the TB card for my HTPC, since it has a control panel that's designed to work from inside Media Center.

 

[ND40oz]

Sweet, I stand corrected, I was under the impression that you had to do six or eight channel out from Intels solution and you couldn't do digital.