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Best 5.1 Surround Sound Card for PowerMac PCI Express....

JasonGough

JasonGough

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I'm trying to buy a surround sound card, but the M-Audio Revolution i was looking at is PCI-X, so i dont think it'l work which is a shame...

Any other suggestions of a good PCI Express 5.1 card?

I have a set of Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers. They are ok, but need somthing to decode the sound for them, hense my need for a surround sound card.

Might i be better getting a external digital decoder to connect to the optical output?

Any help or adive would be great! 🙂

Thanx!
 
JasonGough said:
I'm trying to buy a surround sound card, but the M-Audio Revolution i was looking at is PCI-X, so i dont think it'l work which is a shame...

Any other suggestions of a good PCI Express 5.1 card?

I have a set of Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers. They are ok, but need somthing to decode the sound for them, hense my need for a surround sound card.

Might i be better getting a external digital decoder to connect to the optical output?

Any help or adive would be great! 🙂

Thanx!
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Isnt there a Dolby Digital 5.1 card built into the Powermac G5?
 
I don't know of any PCI Express sound cards made so far.

A external solution might be your only option for now.
 
I could be wrong, bud doesn't the audio optical out support 5.1? And as Dubbz suggested, an ext. solution is probably the way go go.
 
thanx for the help guys.

yeah, looks like some external thing will be needed.

thing is, i don't fully understand how the Mac itself deals with the sound and uses the optical out...

if i conect a decoder to the optical out, will the mac already be sending decoded data to it, or will the decoder sort everything out nicely for me?

Creative do one for £80 that will hook up to any creative surround speakers (which is what i have), anyone seen any other seperate decoder options?
 
JasonGough said:
thanx for the help guys.

yeah, looks like some external thing will be needed.

thing is, i don't fully understand how the Mac itself deals with the sound and uses the optical out...

if i conect a decoder to the optical out, will the mac already be sending decoded data to it, or will the decoder sort everything out nicely for me?

Creative do one for £80 that will hook up to any creative surround speakers (which is what i have), anyone seen any other seperate decoder options?
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http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=4&subcategory=136&product=9468

Was that what you got? It looks pretty good for features.
 
unixkid said:
Don't waist your money on a card, it comes with everything built-in.
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I need somthing that will take the optical output from my powermac and covert it into 6 analogue outputs that my surround sound speaker kit can use.

i have 2 options it seems...

1) buy a new set of surround sound speakers with digital in

2) buy a digital decoder that coverts the signal into useable signal for my current speaker kit.

I don't think there will be much difference, but a seperate decoder is cheaper.

also, vohdoun, yeah you found the one i was looking at. lots of features, more than i need tho.
 
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Hi there i have just bouht a 5.1 logiec system for my power mac g4, and was wondering do i need a 5.1 sound card or is there another way around it, i just took some connectors and plugged eash of the threee male ends into a 3 splice connector..something like that. n e way please help. thanks
 
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