Amon1995 Wrote:That ASUS Xonar soundcard looks alright and everything, but the pin connection has 3 sections for some reason, my motherboard's PCI slots only have 2 sections of pins, 1 small and 1 long one.
Amon1995 Wrote:I bought a sound card with that connection before, and it wouldn't fit in the slot.
That's impossible. Either your other sound card had a different connector or you were trying to plug it into the wrong slot.
That is a standard PCI connector designed to fit in to both 5v and 3.3v PCI slots:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/PCI_Keying.svg
Believe us or don't, I don't care anymore.
Amon1995 Wrote:Nah I'm using USB by itself at the moment, there still is sound, but it's not very good, it's just basic stereo sound, might even be mono actually.
Amon1995 Wrote:I already know that optical is better because I tried optical on my PS3 (it has a port at the back), and the headset sounded pretty good.
Strange. The manual for the 720+ shows usb only being used for power:
http://ftp.ftp.saitek.com/pub/support/trittonmanuals/720plus_manual.pdf
The only difference between optical and usb on this headset will be whether or not you can use the decoder box to manage the audio (which is mainly just used for virtual surround sound). Both carry LPCM.
Amon1995 Wrote:I bought this headset because of the mic quality, I haven't seen any others which have mic quality as good as this one. This is a good thing because I'm planning on doing recording.
How have you reached the conclusion that this mic is much better than other headsets in this price range? If it's that important why not get a standalone mic which will offer much MUCH better quality than any built in mic ever could?
Amon1995 Wrote:I tried TRS and it sounds like shit, there's a constant buzzing noise in the headset.
That's because you're using your motherboards integrated audio chipset which is garbage. That's why I told you to get a sound card.
For some reason that sound card just wouldn't go in, I returned it now anyway.
Anyway, I tried the headset on the second PC in the house (it has a optical port in the motherboard) and the sound was excellent, 7.1 and everything.
I just need to get a optical port in my own PC so I can use this headset properly. I'll probably get a decent sound card soon, so I can use this headset on my own PC.
I definitely know the mic quality is a lot better than the other headsets because I looked most of them up on YouTube and had a look at the mic tests. This one pretty much has the best quality.
Wait a minute, you don't really need an external sound card. From the picture you posted, your motherboard already has a SPDIF output, it just doesn't have the connector exposed. Said that, getting
something like that is sufficient. You would plug the corresponding cables in the SPDIF_O header from your motherboard. It doesn't have the +5V output but you could rewire it to a molex cable from your PSU instead...
Not sure how that will work, BTW at the moment that port on my motherboard is connected to the headphone socket wire from the front panel on my case.
But say if I use that thing, will it be 7.1 sound?
That port isn't connected anywhere, you're confusing SPDIF_O with FAUDIO header.
I'm referring to the connector 8 from page 12 of your motherboard's manual, that connector provides SPDIFO (pin 1) and GND (pin 2) signals that would go directly to
the adapter I linked before. Then, the remaining wire (+5V) could go to anywhere in your computer as long as it provides +5V line (like pin 1 or 2 from an unused F_USB header or directly from the red wire of any MOLEX cable coming from your PSU). And according to Gigabyte's website, your motherboard has a Realtek ALC887 codec that provides 7.1-channel output...
Ah right I see it now! It's those 2 pins at the bottom.
Is there any link to a UK website which has that adapter? Can't seem to find it anywhere. (I live in the UK you see)
I've just looked (albeit briefly) and seem to agree with you.
However, something like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/USB-DAC-PCM2704-Optical-Converter/dp/B0093KZTEA may work. If it's made by non-idiots, it should just take the raw digital audio via USB and out the spdif connections and no matter how crap it is, it should work with no signal degradation. On that note, I've also heard in numerous places that a reasonable USB DAC is better than any consumer sound card these days as there's lots of noise in a computer case (one source is this tek syndicate video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rXcJuEsy0)
(09-17-2015, 10:45 AM)Amon1995 Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any link to a UK website which has that adapter? Can't seem to find it anywhere. (I live in the UK you see)
I have no clue, you may need to import it...