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S/PDIF cable to connect to 9600GT HDMI port
I recently replaced my video card by an eVGA 9600GT SC 512MB PCIe
card. Everything works correctly and it give great resolutions. I am now organizing to prepare to connect this PC via a HDMI cable, with the correct (???) DVI-D to HDMI adapter. In getting info on how to use HDMI, I discovered that to take advantage of HD quality sound, I can route the digital audio out from my on-board HD sound card's S/ PDIF out port to the S/PDIF HDMI 3 pin port on the video card. However, the card was not delivered with the correct S/PDIF internal connecting cable nor does eVGA sell these separately. In a search of the Internet for these cables, the searches mainly return the S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD / CD digital audio to the sound card. The style of cables have the wrong connectors (either too large or 2 pin and not 3 pin.) Where can I find these required cables? |
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S/PDIF cable to connect to 9600GT HDMI port
smlunatick wrote:
I recently replaced my video card by an eVGA 9600GT SC 512MB PCIe card. Everything works correctly and it give great resolutions. I am now organizing to prepare to connect this PC via a HDMI cable, with the correct (???) DVI-D to HDMI adapter. In getting info on how to use HDMI, I discovered that to take advantage of HD quality sound, I can route the digital audio out from my on-board HD sound card's S/ PDIF out port to the S/PDIF HDMI 3 pin port on the video card. However, the card was not delivered with the correct S/PDIF internal connecting cable nor does eVGA sell these separately. In a search of the Internet for these cables, the searches mainly return the S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD / CD digital audio to the sound card. The style of cables have the wrong connectors (either too large or 2 pin and not 3 pin.) Where can I find these required cables? I've never actually heard of this before until now. I think I found an example of what you're trying to do he http://event.asus.com/vga/manual/hdmi_spdif_cable.pdf Now do you absolutely need to have the audio over HDMI for some purpose? You see when you pass a signal like that, generally you want it to be decoded by the highest quality DAC available. So you can use analog out on a high quality soundcard, or pass it from a low quality onboard sound out SPDIF to a receiver or speakers. Unless the videocard mixes audio to 5.1, which I didn't know it does now, SPDIF either passes the 5.1 AC3 signal to the receiver or you only get stereo 2.1 out; so I don't see where combining the audio into the HDMI cable is more useful if that's the case. BTW, the SPDIF connector they're using looks like the old CDROM electrical style SPDIF. |
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S/PDIF cable to connect to 9600GT HDMI port
"smlunatick" wrote in message ... I recently replaced my video card by an eVGA 9600GT SC 512MB PCIe card. Everything works correctly and it give great resolutions. I am now organizing to prepare to connect this PC via a HDMI cable, with the correct (???) DVI-D to HDMI adapter. In getting info on how to use HDMI, I discovered that to take advantage of HD quality sound, I can route the digital audio out from my on-board HD sound card's S/ PDIF out port to the S/PDIF HDMI 3 pin port on the video card. However, the card was not delivered with the correct S/PDIF internal connecting cable nor does eVGA sell these separately. In a search of the Internet for these cables, the searches mainly return the S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD / CD digital audio to the sound card. The style of cables have the wrong connectors (either too large or 2 pin and not 3 pin.) Where can I find these required cables? Just curious but why did you not buy a GeForce card with hdmi+dvi+s-video output? I assume that this card would route MB onboard AC97 at least 5 channel or high-end audio card through its hdmi port. regards, Beemer |
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S/PDIF cable to connect to 9600GT HDMI port
On Sep 19, 6:00*pm, "Beemer" wrote:
"smlunatick" wrote in message ... I recently replaced my video card by an eVGA 9600GT SC 512MB PCIe card. *Everything works correctly and it give great resolutions. *I am now organizing to prepare to connect this PC via a HDMI cable, with the correct (???) DVI-D to HDMI adapter. *In getting info on how to use HDMI, I discovered that to take advantage of HD quality sound, I can route the digital audio out from my on-board HD sound card's S/ PDIF out port to the S/PDIF HDMI 3 pin port on the video card. However, the card was not delivered with the correct S/PDIF internal connecting cable nor does eVGA sell these separately. *In a search of the Internet for these cables, the searches mainly return the S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD / CD digital audio to the sound card. *The style of cables have the wrong connectors (either too large or 2 pin and not 3 pin.) Where can I find these required cables? Just curious but why did you not buy a GeForce card with hdmi+dvi+s-video output? I assume that this card would route MB onboard AC97 at least 5 channel or high-end audio card through its hdmi port. regards, Beemer - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have the S-Video to Composite video cable. It is just that I can also use a separate DVI-D to HDMI adapter. HDMI (aks DisplayPort) can also carry HD quality signals over one cable. |
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S/PDIF cable to connect to 9600GT HDMI port
On Sep 19, 5:05*pm, deimos deimos@localhost wrote:
smlunatick wrote: I recently replaced my video card by an eVGA 9600GT SC 512MB PCIe card. *Everything works correctly and it give great resolutions. *I am now organizing to prepare to connect this PC via a HDMI cable, with the correct (???) DVI-D to HDMI adapter. *In getting info on how to use HDMI, I discovered that to take advantage of HD quality sound, I can route the digital audio out from my on-board HD sound card's S/ PDIF out port to the S/PDIF HDMI 3 pin port on the video card. However, the card was not delivered with the correct S/PDIF internal connecting cable nor does eVGA sell these separately. *In a search of the Internet for these cables, the searches mainly return the S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD / CD digital audio to the sound card. *The style of cables have the wrong connectors (either too large or 2 pin and not 3 pin.) Where can I find these required cables? I've never actually heard of this before until now. *I think I found an example of what you're trying to do he http://event.asus.com/vga/manual/hdmi_spdif_cable.pdf Now do you absolutely need to have the audio over HDMI for some purpose? * You see when you pass a signal like that, generally you want it to be decoded by the highest quality DAC available. So you can use analog out on a high quality soundcard, or pass it from a low quality onboard sound out SPDIF to a receiver or speakers. Unless the videocard mixes audio to 5.1, which I didn't know it does now, SPDIF either passes the 5.1 AC3 signal to the receiver or you only get stereo 2.1 out; so I don't see where combining the audio into the HDMI cable is more useful if that's the case. BTW, the SPDIF connector they're using looks like the old CDROM electrical style SPDIF.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The reason is that the newer DVI-D to HDMI (aka DsiplayPort) has the possibility of send the HD quality sound / video over one cable. Escpeially important when you are to connect a BLU-Ray drive. |
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