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[Vanillalite]

So my GF had an old comp she was getting rid of, and it had a sound card in it. I was allowed to take anything from the comp, but it's old and figured I wouldn't need anything. Then I saw this sound card.

Now I'm currently rocking on board audio in terms of Realtek HD Audio on my Abit ab9 mobo (old intel 2 core mobo). The card I found was a Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS regular edition.

I found a link to a used one on Amazon to reference for this thread. Click Me to see!

Now my onboard basically has the same ports plus an optical out (which only does PCM 2.1 unless I'm watching a dvd) so I have just regular audio out going into my Yamaha receiver which then mixes it into Prologic II at the receiver level.

Is the soundcard better than my onboard? Should I bother with it? Model number is SB0350 btw, and it's the regular model without the optical out if you go googling.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[Kyaw]

If your Yamaha receiver has a SPDIF input, use the card. It should be better than onboard and you should get 5.1 from games if it support Dolby Digital Live.

 

[Vanillalite]

If your Yamaha receiver has a SPDIF input, use the card. It should be better than onboard and you should get 5.1 from games if it support Dolby Digital Live.

I'm confused on what to plug it into though. The card just has those 6 regular ports verese an actual coax or optical out. How would that work?

 

[Kyaw]

Is it this one?

I really cant any info on the normal version of the card.
I imagine one of the ports to be SPDIF though. So if your yamaha receiver has a SPDIF input, you can just use a SPDIF cable to plug them together.

 

[Vanillalite]

Is it this one?

I really cant any info on the normal version of the card.
I imagine one of the ports to be SPDIF though. So if your yamaha receiver has a SPDIF input, you can just use a SPDIF cable to plug them together.

No it's not that one which is why I specifically linked to the card I did. I mainly found that card with the gold outs, but my card looks like the one I posted!