Headphones + monitor playback device at the same time? Is it possible

[vygantaspetrauskas91]

Hello everyone, so my aim is to make pc play sound from audiojack as well as 144hz monitor at the same time. Because it aint fun for someone to watch your games without hearing them.. Thanks alot!

 

[RememberThe5th]

Using 3.5MM male to 2x3.5MM splitter is the easiest way to go.
Otherwise if you have front panel, plug your headphones to front and speakers to back, also you might need to enable front panel audio in realtek control panel to play at same time.

 

[Paperdoc]

How do you feed audio to your monitor? If it is done through the HDMI cable from a video card (not from the mobo's back panel) this could be tricky because there is no audio being fed out of a 3.5 mm jack on the back. Well, unless your VIDEO card also has a speaker jack on the back - if it does, try plugging your headphones in there. Otherwise, look on your monitor to see if it has an audio OUTPUT 3.5mm jack where you could plug in headphones. Even that might require some fiddling IF it's possible. Some such jacks will automatically kill the monitor speakers, assuming that you want them silent when using earphones. So IF you can do this connection and it kills your monitor speakers, look in the menus of your monitor to see if you can NOT kill speakers when using headphones.

If none of those things are possible there's probably another way, assuming that your mobo has its own audio output system through a set of jacks on the back panel. This would involve connecting a new cable from the mobo's audio output Left / Right front speaker jack (usually light green) to the audio input jack of your monitor, and setting the monitor to get its uadio from that jack, and not from the HDMI cable. To make this work you must then tell Windows to use the mobo audio output system as your default sound playback device. THEN you could get the 3.5 mm splitter suggested above and use that between the back panel jack and the new cable, giving you a place to plug your headphones into the other am of the splitter.