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Hey guys,

So my setup right now is the ASUS VG258QE as my gaming monitor, and a BenQ RL2455HM as my second monitor. I'm trying to figure out how to have my BenQ monitor play sound through my logitech speakers, and my ASUS monitor play sound through my Razer Headset. I've been running through settings trying to figure it out, perhaps I overlooked something. The BenQ also has a port on the back for speakers, but when I plug the speakers into it, no sound comes out.

My setup
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card
Corsair Air 540 ATX Desktop Case
Microsoft Windows 8.1(64-bit)
Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor
BenQ RL2455HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor

EDIT:
I have both the ASUS and BenQ plugged in with DVI-D
 
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This won't work. Games and media players will use the default audio device.
Skype is the only modern software I have seen that allows you to select the output audio device in Windows.
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You will likely need to split the audio streams in windows and have one come out the front port and the other come out the back ports. Windows doesn't differentiate audio by which screen it is on, generally you just have audio and all of it goes to a single playback device so your first challenge will be to get it to be willing to use two playback devices simultaneously for different audio streams.
 
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You can only have one default audio device in Windows. If you want to switch to another device, you need to change the default playback device in Windows.

Monitors can have speakers, but they are not an audio device. For audio over HDMI, the audio device is your graphics card.
If you want to connect headphones and speakers, connect them to your computer rather than the monitor.
If both use a 3.5mm audio jack, you should be able to plug the speakers in the rear of the computer and headphones in the front.
This way they are both using the onboard sound of the motherboard. When the headphones are plugged in, the speakers will be muted.
 
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I would like both to play sound at the same time, my game to come through my headset on my ASUS screen, and movies/youtube/whatever to play sound over my logitech speakers on my BenQ screen.
 
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Really? I could have sworn that it was possible to play youtube on one screen (through seperate speakers) and game on other screen through a headset. The fact that this is not possible baffles me.
 
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You are trying to associate audio with a screen. This isn't how PC audio works.
The PC has one or more display output devices and you can span your desktop across these.
Audio is completely separate. You can send audio on the same cable as video (HDMI or Display Port), but you have independently chosen this as the audio output.
By moving a media player to one screen or another, this doesn't then mean audio is output to this screen.
Most of the time this doesn't matter as you would only want to listen to one thing at once.
 
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