Thanks for the responses. My receiver doesn't have those inputs so I guess im just gonna have to use 2.1 for games. After a few hours of reading I did get my movies with dts to play over the spdif. Downloaded a test file and it cycled through all the speakers. Only problem is that it seems like...
Receiver: 3 individual jacks for RCA, 1 Coaxial, and 1 Toslink.
Onboard: 1 Coaxial, 1 Toslink, and those mini analog jacks.
Is it possible to get an adapter to connect all the mini jacks into a coaxial and still deliver true 5.1? I guess what I am looking for is a solution, like some...
I have a M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo with an optical output connected to a Sony receiver. Aside from the that connection there is only a coax and 3 rca connectors on the back. From what I have been reading there is no way to allow 5.1 from my pc because pc optical only carries 2 channels. Is this true...
I currently have:
Dfi Infinity 865pe mobo
2.7 celeron processor(socket 478)
512 megs or ram
6600gt vid card
2x sata drives.
I was thinking about just upgrading the ram to 2gigs, the processor to 3Ghz p4, and a 6800xt vid card.
is it better if i just get a new mobo that supports...
Lately Ive been playing World of Warcraft and have noticed the hard drive is in use a lot. Since Im upgrading my system all together I figured I would buy another hard drive to run the game files separately. Which should I run off the faster drive - the paging file or the game files? Also I...