I'm wondering if there are any good sound cards that have rca out/inputs and (in a perfect world) dolby digital support? I don't care about 1/8 " jacks. I'll never use them again because all the sound from my computer goes to a component stereo system with a Dolby Digital 5.1 reciever, so I have no reason to buy a computer speaker system. Basically, I have the sblive! value that came with my Dell, and rather than slap that in the box I'd like to build, I'm hoping that there's a card that supports the above requirements without needing a rack mount.
Does your Receiver have 6 channel analog inputs on the back? If it does, I recommend Any SB live 5.1 or Audigy series, but none of them will have the RCA cable output as you described, as no audio card has enough space to provide RCA jacks on board, however, you can very easily use your card by purchasing a Minidin -to- RCA stereo jack. Basically, it looks like a headphone jack on one end and the RCA plugs on the other end. I recommend Monster Cable, gold-plated converters my self. From there, all you need to do is plug the front output (signified by a 'I' on the back of the soundcard) to the front input on the receiver, then do the same with the other back and center/sub channels(the center/sub uses the orange or digital output jack on the sound card) to their corrisponding connectors on the reciever. If you do not have analog inputs on the back of your reciever, but do have digital ones, you may decide to by the mini-din to coax converter from creative and hook up your system digitally, although in my experience, this does not allow you to have surround sound, but only simulated surround sound through effects like hall, theater, or prologic. If you have any more questions let us know.
I think this is what you need. It doesn't have decoder but it supports it with S/PDIF output. This is a professional card at affordable price. I bought it in Guitar Center for $160. I've used it for a year and couldn't be more than happy. SB doesn't even come close in comparison.
Yeah.... an ISA Awe64-gold has both rca and a coax digital out (the rca digital out is a cable, not on card itself. It was packaged with them retail, dunno about refurb cards... worst case you just make one since it's just 2 wires to rca jack) They are on compgeeks occasionally for about 10 bucks.
I got rid of mine accidentally, and now wish I hadn't. My living room box goes to my a/v receiver and has a stupid sb16 pci in it that hums like a bitch. I would take it back in a second, ISA or not...
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