Does Xonar support internal spdif passthrough for Geforce HDMI?

Going by the images on newegg and the Xonar D2X manual I downloaded from Asus, I cannot see any internal SPDIF output to connect to the SPDIF input on my Geforce card.

I'm getting a new sound card expressly because I want to put sound out through HDMI and play games on my TV with a nice home theater experience. Is there a way to connect the Xonar to the Geforce's internal SPDIF input?

Possible slight complication - I want the analog stereo speakers on the computer desk to work too, when I'm sitting there. (I'm resigned to having to change inputs in Windows every time. It's not ok, but I've learned to be OK with it.) For that reason the Xonar HDAV 1.3 isn't a very good option since it does not seem to have an analog out at all.

I don't think I see a front panel audio connector either. Are those things really not there? I thought these things were all baseline standard connectors!

(But of course, you can still connect that useless analog cable from your CDROM drive.)


Hackish solutions like soldering an spdif connector to a coax spdif cable are cool with me. Doesn't have to be pretty, just has to work.

No idea but I'm trying to do the same thing. Actually someone in my topic suggested these 2.(The company that makes them states it does have spdif out for exactly this thing on their web page.)

http://www.ncixus.com/products/ind [...] omoid=1048

http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sk [...] omoid=1048

Missed something: "I want the analog stereo speakers on the computer desk to work too, when I'm sitting there. For that reason the Xonar HDAV 1.3 isn't a very good option since it does not seem to have an analog out at all. "

I really don't care about 7.1 sound. This machine will not be playing movies of any sort. This is just for piping games to the HT area without having to buy a second, less powerful computer to do it. Right now I barely have speakers for 5.1. Haven't had 5.1 in games since my Klipsch Promedia Ultras died in 2007. (I've had LAPTOP SPEAKERS! So I'll ride 5.1 until they come out with 11.3 and all the people with 7.1 have to upgrade too.)

Has anyone else here played Space Quest IV? Roberta Williams SO called it.



Things I need in a sound card right now:
Decent support in games to where I won't be like "man this sound card just can't do this"
Avoid Creative if at all possible because they keep the sound card industry terrible for personal gain and that's not OK
Internal SPDIF to pass 5.1 sound through my Geforce
ANALOG stereo minijack or RCA outputs for the on-the-desk speakers
MIC or Line-In for recording lectures and howtos
ASIO support that tries not to crash too much

Read this article for your reference

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2622/1

Despite the advantages the article says you get with an HDMI pass-through card, the current offerings have a major problem for me in that the ones with good games support do not have a simple stereo analog minijack to connect my desktop speakers to. (Remembering that my HT is "over there" where my keyboard and monitor aren't.)

I'm searching around but the only hits I get are specifically related to HDCP issues when playing Blu-Ray.

This system does not nor will it ever have a bluray player. It will never need to play an HDCP audio stream, or even ever play a movie. Emphasis on this. This system will never in its lifetime play a movie. I use something else for that. This system is for playing games on my HT with the best audio that is reasonably possible and also needs to have simple stereo audio at the desk for YouTube, mixing demo reel tracks in stereo in Audition, and lipsyncing animation and stuff.


Since it seems to matter, my video card is Geforce GTX 260 and has a 2-pin spdif passthrough port. I keep running into articles from 2007 talking about the "upcoming" 8xxx series that solves the problem everyone's talking about.


So,

1: Can I use the FP Audio port for my stereo output at the desk, or does that process the sound for headphones somehow that would mess with the sound on my nice Klipsch 2.1's?

2: Can I get NON-HDCP audio from video games that sounds good, through my GTX 260, in 5.1 or better? Can it NOT do 7.1 at all with that passthrough? Is the spdif connector unable to carry "HD Audio" signals at all, or just unable to carry them with HDCP for blu-ray support?

3: Can all this mess be bypassed just using a different cable to get audio to my Onkyo HT receiver, and running that alongside the HDMI? Can optical support NON-HDCP, "HD Audio" signals in 7.1?

The answer to your original question is yes. The Xonar card supports spdif.