audio help

[saph the sergal]

heres a challenge for all you who can help im looking for a sound card that can take a 5.1 speaker system from my pc for me are do i need to buy a special cable (see pic for reference)


any help wil be great

[Timmy Fox]

Why do you need a sound card? Can't you just use the ports at the back of your motherboard?

[saph the sergal]

i need a sound card because i dont have a high end motherboard and i need better audio

[Timmy Fox]

What's your current motherboard? Because usually even most cheaper motherboards as good or better than a sound card.

[saph the sergal]

i cant find the box and i just found a sound card that takes coaxial output so i can just convert that

[Timmy Fox]

i cant find the box and i just found a sound card that takes coaxial output so i can just convert that

Uh.. It usually lists the model either right above or right below the graphics card on most motherboards. What brand/socket/age is it?

Also, which sound card? Coaxial is a digital output which means that the data that goes through it is just 1's and 0's. A coaxial connection, just like with optical s/pdif or USB, is identical from A-B and should, unless you have a REALLY old (like 5+ years old) and crappy motherboard, not produce any difference whatsoever.

Also, what's the 5.1 speaker system and what connection options do you have for it?

[saph the sergal]

ASUS Xonar Essence STX II 7.1 Sound Card is the one i found and i got my connecters wrong i really need coffee it has S/PDF

[Timmy Fox]

I wouldn't recommend that one. I had the original one but sold it after I found that my cheapish Asus motherboard I bought 3 years ago sounded pretty much identical and was even unable to pick out which was which doing an A/B test.

Sound cards are mostly just marketing and, honestly, buying such a sound card just for Coaxial or S/PDIF is a waste of money.

What's your speakers? Can you post a picture of the back IO of your motherboard, with all the ports?

[saph the sergal]

speakers are a 5.1 sound system as for back ports umm they are all in use with my 3 screens and all the usb ports are full but its just the normal setup for a low end motherboard

[Timmy Fox]

I need a little more information than that, as in, what brand and models are the speakers? How do they connect, as in, how do the connection options look like?

Also, could you still try and take a picture because it's MUCH easier to see what you have from a simple photo.

[saph the sergal]

they are from a dvd player thats the reason for the pic of the connectors and i went looking through my pc parts box to find the motherboard manual asus P8B75-M

[Timmy Fox]

Could you find a model number or get a picture of the ports for the DVD player?

[saph the sergal]

timmy the plugs are the same ones like the dvd player and the sound system

[Timmy Fox]

Are those the only type of plugs the DVD can use? Because that looks more like a component video cable and not an audio cable.

[saph the sergal]

it can use rca but i want to USE the sound system from it