Surround sound cards

nginno9

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I have a gigabyte board that only supports two channel audio. I have audio and video recording software that I've been using that has been taking surround sound (5.1 and 7.1) and creating aac 2.0 audio tracks. If I were upgrade to a sound card (only have board device at the moment) would my recordings come through as 5.1 instead? Provided my recording settings are set as such.
 

nginno9

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Dec 3, 2017
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That would force the card to process the source audio correct? Whether I have speakers setup or not. I thought so, but didn't want to shell out $100 to find out. Thanks for the help.
 

Whether your speaker setup is 2.0 or 5.1 makes no difference to the computer or sound card.