Need a new sound card...

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited August 2004 in Hardware
I need a sound card for my dual xeon system. Since the dual athlon system is using the minijack connections on the Z-680s, I need something that can encode dolby digital over S-PDIF using either an optical or coaxial connection.

I was looking at the M-Audio Revolution, but I'm not sure that it can do what I want it to. I KNOW the Audigy 2 can't, and I'm not anxious to use another Creative product anyhow. Anyone have any suggestions?

Comments

  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Terratec?
    I personally don't know of any card with optical I/O and Dolby decode.
    I know someone with a M-A that does dolby, but no optical I&O
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    Doesn't need to be optical. Coax works just as well.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited August 2004
    As far as I'm aware of the Nforce 2 Sound Storm is the only sound system that outputs Dolby Digital from any source. The others will send D.D. sound via a digital output only from DVDs.
    That's what I've read and heard at least.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    crud. The nForce2 is totally out of the question. :rant:
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