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ATI Sound Card?
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It is basically so you can send Video and audio data down HDMI. You will still need a tv / speaker setup to make sense of it all.
I believe so but you need to connect the card to sound source through a small cable (SPDIF) I believe. Someone else will be able to confirm.
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Basically ATI do this side better than Nvidia.
That's all there is to it, neither side are perfect, BUT if you have a AVR/HDMI sound setup, then ATI are better.
The trick behind it (now that DX10 audio has apparently been sorted), is either having your AVR on before the PC, or tricking the PC to output to it as a cloned screen and then turn that into a profile so you load the profile after havign switched the AVR on.
Sounds complicated but its actually very easy in practice
As the below video shows you can indeed use it as a sound card, which is great if you have a high quality AVR setup and a good screen.
It was good enough I dumped an X-Fi Fatal1ty which cost quite a bit, as I just didnt need it anymore. Most systems have onboard with mic input so the loss of the X-Fi mic input was not an issue.
PS. It's only the 5 series ATI cards which support HD audio over HDMI, the 4 series are limited to DD/DTS/PCM.
That's all there is to it, neither side are perfect, BUT if you have a AVR/HDMI sound setup, then ATI are better.
The trick behind it (now that DX10 audio has apparently been sorted), is either having your AVR on before the PC, or tricking the PC to output to it as a cloned screen and then turn that into a profile so you load the profile after havign switched the AVR on.
Sounds complicated but its actually very easy in practice
As the below video shows you can indeed use it as a sound card, which is great if you have a high quality AVR setup and a good screen.
It was good enough I dumped an X-Fi Fatal1ty which cost quite a bit, as I just didnt need it anymore. Most systems have onboard with mic input so the loss of the X-Fi mic input was not an issue.
PS. It's only the 5 series ATI cards which support HD audio over HDMI, the 4 series are limited to DD/DTS/PCM.
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nVidia cards can pass an audio stream over HDMI, however it's not acting as a separate soundcard.
It has to use the motherboard's sound to do it.
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about time! would my dvi cable to hdmi work? or must it be hdmi - hdmi?
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It's got to be HDMI->HDMI using the official ATI HDMI dongle or a HDMI output built directly onto the card, due to differing pin-outs from standard DVI
I quite liked the feature, which is one of the reasons I'd be happy to move to ATIs new mobile cards, to get the feature back
I quite liked the feature, which is one of the reasons I'd be happy to move to ATIs new mobile cards, to get the feature back
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