QuadDragon
Limp Gawd
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- Jun 26, 2007
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Hi Gang,
The ultimate goal would be to have a game that used all 7.1 speakers that I have hooked up to my reciever in descrete channels. Currently all I can manage is 5.1 via DDL.
My current setup is a 46 inch TV hooked up to my reciever, an Onkyo 706 via HDMI. My PC is hooked up to the reciever sound wise via a tosslink cable. The sound card is a soundblaster X-fi titanium pro gamer fatality edition.
Now its my understanding that the tosslink cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry a 7.1 uncompressed stream for blueray so they released HDMI. I am not sure how that relates to gaming as most games sound is probably compressed.
I have an Nvidia gtx 480 hooked up to the reciever via mini HDMI, and I suppose I could use the passthrough technique to route the spdif digital signal to the HDMI on the video card with the proper cable, However, wouldn't that still only output a DDL 5.1 signal?
Where does eax 5.0 come into this? Is there no digital 7.1 sound card? All I can find is an analog 7.1 soundcard if I want discreate channels which means a different sound ammplifier than the onkyo reciever which defeats the whole purpose of my home theater setup.
Any and all help and or coments are welcome.
The ultimate goal would be to have a game that used all 7.1 speakers that I have hooked up to my reciever in descrete channels. Currently all I can manage is 5.1 via DDL.
My current setup is a 46 inch TV hooked up to my reciever, an Onkyo 706 via HDMI. My PC is hooked up to the reciever sound wise via a tosslink cable. The sound card is a soundblaster X-fi titanium pro gamer fatality edition.
Now its my understanding that the tosslink cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry a 7.1 uncompressed stream for blueray so they released HDMI. I am not sure how that relates to gaming as most games sound is probably compressed.
I have an Nvidia gtx 480 hooked up to the reciever via mini HDMI, and I suppose I could use the passthrough technique to route the spdif digital signal to the HDMI on the video card with the proper cable, However, wouldn't that still only output a DDL 5.1 signal?
Where does eax 5.0 come into this? Is there no digital 7.1 sound card? All I can find is an analog 7.1 soundcard if I want discreate channels which means a different sound ammplifier than the onkyo reciever which defeats the whole purpose of my home theater setup.
Any and all help and or coments are welcome.