Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

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On Fri, 30 May 2025 13:09:24 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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I actually love SPDIF optical. It's a much cleaner connection, and less
hassle, when compared to HDMI passthrough.

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My old mainboard had SPDIF. My new mainboard just has 3 3.5mm ports that
serve double duties as various ins and outs. If you want to run 5.1, you
double duty the mic port. It doesn't do 7.1 iirc.

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My motherboard doesn't do 5.1; it's actually a major reason why I got
the discrete sound-card. I don't think it has SPIDF either (although
since I don't have anything else SPIDF, I wouldn't be able to use it
even if the motherboard had the option ;-)
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I'm considering a cheap Audigy. What's out there other than Creative?

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Honestly, other than the Xonar cards (I think they're an ASUS brand?)
I can't think of any. I think Turtle Beach was the last company that
made discrete cards, but even they're gone now. Nowadays, everyone
just uses Creative Labs or whatever is on their motherboard.

I have a Xonar in the old computer, the new one I just used what came on
the motherboard.

Well, that's not exactly true. There are USB sound solutions, I guess.
I dunno, though; they probably work fine but I like my soundcards to
be... well, cards ;-)
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I'm not sure I'd recommend a Creative card, though. I suspect my
current issue is with the card itself, and not some Windows thing. I
had a similar problem with another Soundblaster; it just stopped
outputting from one of its ports (fortunately, my motherboard on that
computer supported 5.1 so it wasn't really an issue). I think there
are some real issues with the quality of the components on Creative's
offerings.

That and they pulled the old trick of replacing cards with difference
chipsets but kept the same name/model number.

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