Hi, and thanks for looking at my question. I have a thermaltake level 10 gt case, and the front audio ports are broken. (apparently this has happened to a bunch of people according to reviews.) I need to get speakers for it, but i also want to be able to plug in headphones without unplugging the speakers. I am going to get a new monitor, so i got the idea of plugging it in using hdmi so i can use the integrated sound card that my gtx 770 has. (does anybody know if those gpu sound cards are decent?). The monitor i am looking at is an Acer S2 S242HLBwid
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009589&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS010414&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS010414-_-EMC-010414-Index-_-LCDMonitors-_-24009589-L06C
If you have any suggestions for a different monitor in the same price range, please feel free to suggest them. Anyways, i am confused about whether or not this monitor has an audio out jack. If it does, could i put a splitter on it and plug in both my headphones and my speakers? ( Logitech Z506 75. Again if you have any suggestions for alternative speakers in the same price range i would be happy to see them.) I was confused again because if i plugged headphones into a splitter, would it still automatically mute the speakers? If somebody could help me figure out this whole situation, that would be great. Thanks!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009589&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS010414&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS010414-_-EMC-010414-Index-_-LCDMonitors-_-24009589-L06C
If you have any suggestions for a different monitor in the same price range, please feel free to suggest them. Anyways, i am confused about whether or not this monitor has an audio out jack. If it does, could i put a splitter on it and plug in both my headphones and my speakers? ( Logitech Z506 75. Again if you have any suggestions for alternative speakers in the same price range i would be happy to see them.) I was confused again because if i plugged headphones into a splitter, would it still automatically mute the speakers? If somebody could help me figure out this whole situation, that would be great. Thanks!