Steel Series 840 Wireless - No optical on the mobo

Luke Marshall · 17 Dec 2018 at 18:51

Hey guys,

I recently bought the below motherboard and it appears that it doesn't come with an on board optical output. The headset I've got doesn't seem to work using 3.5mm at all, can't work that out tbh.

- Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 5 Wifi AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-56y-gi.html

I'm not really sure what to do now...? Help!

Luke Marshall · 18 Dec 2018 at 10:59

Sorry guys, I linked the wrong motherboard:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ocket-am4-mini-itx-motherboard-mb-57h-gi.html

It's an Mini/ITX one.

Luke Marshall · 18 Dec 2018 at 13:03

Yeah, I am absolutely baffled as to why usb doesn't support surround sound!

Is there room on that ITX motherboard for a soundcard? There is only one PCI slot which is taken up by my graphics card?

Luke Marshall · 18 Dec 2018 at 13:36

ah, I didn't even know external sound cards were a thing! I will have a google!

Luke Marshall · 18 Dec 2018 at 13:48

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Channel-External-Optical-Audio-Adapter/dp/B000XXY5Q4

I'm looking at this one on Amazon. Seems about right?