S/pdif audio connection to my video card hdmi

[saguarochoi]

I like to use hdmi from video card to connect to hdtv.

My video card has s/pdif input pins on it, but my motherboard (intel dg965wh) does not have s/pdif output pins.

Q1: So, I need to get a sound card that has s/pdif output pins to be connected to video card's s/pdif input pins, right? (yes/no)

Q2: If Q1 is "yes", I searched sound card with s/pdif output pins, but it's hard to find one or ones available have bad reviews. Anyone could suggest for me to look for any sound card models?

Q3: any other better soulution?

Thanks so much!!

 

[henryong]

hey saguarochoi,

Did you ever find a solution for this? I have the same motherboard and looking to do the exact same thing.

let me know what you did,
thanks

 

[aubiecat]

Can someone answer this? Is there an audio card that has spdif output pins to connect to video cards????????

 

[Guest]

Auzentech X-Plosion 7.1 cinema has an spdif out.

Now, what graphics card will accept the spdif and also has an HDMI (not DVI) out put?

 

[pbrigido]

You guys may benefit from something like this.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2

I am kind of in your same situation. I have DVI and SPDIF (Toslink) out on my HT PC and I needed to run it to a HDMI so I could get both audio and video sent to my HD LCD TV. I just ordered this yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to test it out, but I am very optimistic that this will work for what we need.

 

[pbrigido]

Update: I got the product I listed and wow does it work great! I output my video through DVI from my video card and my digital audio (using the optical connection) from my sound card into this device. All I had to do was plug in my HDMI cable from the device to the HDMI on my LCD TV and it works flawlessly. I was expecting problems with playback, but I just watched The Dark Knight last night and it was absolutely flawless.