DTS interactive on Asus Z170-A motherboard

[blevinsderek06]

Hello erebody.

Im planning on building a new PC in the near future. I'm going to be using the new z170 chipset and Im looking at the Asus Z170-A. I also want to be able to use DTS interactive or DDL to encode 5.1 audio from games to send to my reciever. I dont want to use HDMI because I have a monitor as my main screen and TV connected to my pc. In the past when I ran HDMI through the AVR I would have V-sync issues and I also didnt like how my AVR was seen as a second monitor, even if I was only using it for auido at the time.

Back to the point. On the box of this MoBo it lists DST connect. And on Asus website it says it has DTS support. So I was thinking this MoBo would save me from having to by a 100 dollar sound card with these features. I started a chat session with Asus support to make sure before i bought this board and they said that is could send DTS to my AVR but it couldnt do realtime encoding. But on this site, in the review it says DTS real time encoding is possible.
http://techreport.com/review/28737/asus-z170-a-motherboard-reviewed/2
And DTS connect includes DTS interactive which does the real time encoding, so if the board doesnt support it, why would it be on the box for that MoBo?

Does anyone have any personal use with this board or know if it would be able to real time encode 5.1 sound with DTS Interactive?


ALso i know there were some issues with DDL and DTS interactive in windows 10, but even if thats not sorted out yet, i would still like to know if this board is at least capable of it for if it ever gets fixed in Win 10.



And one more thing, does DTS Interactive of DDL on a motherboard soundcard cause a big hit to CPU usage, compared to those features being on a dedicated sound card? For game performance, would one way be better over the other or would it be negligible?


Thanks!!

 

[getochkn]

From reading, it seems it should work over the optical port. Did you install the realitek suite for your MB from Asus. This should include options to turn it on and off and settings for it.

Normally optical will only output multi-channel sound, like on my AVR even using HDMI, depending on how it's configured, I'll get "MULTI 7.1" display on it. DTS Connect is supposed to encode those 8 (or 6) channels into a DTS stream instead. Guess this would also need AVR support to be able to accept something other than a PCM stream over optical.

Other option, I think I remember reading on an AVR forum about a HDMI splitter that would send audio only over 1 HDMI port and video over the other.