S/PDIF Audio out on A7N8X-E

[Patrick Flaherty]

Hi,

Programmer building my first computer. Bought the A7N8X-E (and a Athlon XP
2600+ that I'm looking to overclock). And a bunch of other stuff.

Am looking at the S/PDIF Audio out on the mobo. Hmm this is interesting:
digital audio out. How can I use this?

A first thought (maybe way off-base), can I buy computer audio speakers (so
powered) that will do the D/A conversion internally? Look around the Web
briefly and don't find anything.

But maybe this makes no sense. Maybe people interpose some kind of box, say an
AV receiver?

Basically I just want to play the mp3s on my new machine sending the signal out
digitally as far as possible.

pat

 

[Gary Tait]

Hi,

Programmer building my first computer. Bought the A7N8X-E (and a Athlon XP
2600+ that I'm looking to overclock). And a bunch of other stuff.

Am looking at the S/PDIF Audio out on the mobo. Hmm this is interesting:
digital audio out. How can I use this?
Yes.


A first thought (maybe way off-base), can I buy computer audio speakers (so
powered) that will do the D/A conversion internally? Look around the Web
briefly and don't find anything.

They exist.

But maybe this makes no sense. Maybe people interpose some kind of box, say an
AV receiver?

You can hook it to an A/V receiver too.

Basically I just want to play the mp3s on my new machine sending the signal out
digitally as far as possible.

pat

I don't know how far digital will go.

 

[Jett]

1. Load nvida drivers for sound.

2.5 Turn on digital output only and choose speaker setup of your
choice or use wizzard.

2. Get Klipsch DD 5.1 multimedia decoder.

3. Get Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers.

Sound will blow you away. This is the setup I use. Takes a little
bit of tweaking but, the spidif out outputs a dolby digital stream or
pcm stero to you speaker system all the time.

Will not be able to here the bios post reporter, Taht only works with
analog output.