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Petrolman   05-21-2009 at 02:23:00 AM

The only place I've been able to find an SPDIF In Bracket for my UD3R is on Ebay and they are running around 20 bucks. I've also considered the do-it-yourself fix by just buying the coaxial panel from FrontX, which costs $6.30. I shouldn't need anything but the coaxial jack so the last solution seems best but I was wondering if anyone had actually purchased the official bracket and was there anything to it worth the extra 12 or so dollars.

The part from FrontX: http://www.frontx.com/pro/p1062_030.html

PetrolMan

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pamewan   07-28-2009 at 06:08:32 PM
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I did buy this bracket off Ebay thinking I'd be able to turn my desktop into a 5.1 Dolby receiver. On Windows 7, however, so far I can only achieve stereo using optical-in. If anyone knows whether this is a limitation of the chipset, driver, or software, please reply and message me. I hope it was worth ~$20 for this experiment.

(My specific board is Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P)

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Bronze Motherboards badge bilbat   07-28-2009 at 06:17:11 PM
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I've an Intel (DS5) with the same audio codec, but a built-in rear-panel jack - my driver, also, only shows stereo for the SPDIF in...

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gamerk316   07-28-2009 at 07:16:15 PM
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Because SPdif can only carry 2.0, and encoded (compressed) 5.1 via Dolby Digital/DTS. Uncompressed 5.1 signals are too large for Spdif to carry. Unless you are passing in a dolby/DTS signal, all you will get is 2.0, unless you use a soundcard to upmix to 5.1.

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Anonymous   08-23-2009 at 03:51:44 AM
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There is good SPDIF cable mention here in this post.

http://shophobby.blogspot.com/2009 [...] f-out.html

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