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Post Date: 2011-11-08
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    Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 12:12am
Hello!

Noticed tonight the mini HDMI outs on the gtx 570 cards. Am guessing that means I could get audio from them if I had somewhere to plug them in to.

Has anyone tried getting audio from their video cards like this?

If it's possible there may need to be a new receiver with HDMI inputs in my future.

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Yes, they do work! Big%20Smile
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Thank you, Alex.  Just a quick follow up--so if I'm rocking the ODE-3 (570s in SLI), which card should be used for the mini-HDMI output?  Or maybe it doesn't matter which card is used for the audio?
 
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You should use the very top video card.
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Outstanding! Awesome
 
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Does anyone here currently run their audio this way?
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I use to, not anymore.
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Ok last question (probably):
Does the mini-HDMI output on cards like this have the same issue as the S/PDIF optical outs?  Meaning that unless the sound is formatted just right it only carries 2 channels of sound?  I'm hoping that mini-HDMI would transfer all the channels.
 
For example, a friend of mine plays StarCraft 2 and uses HDMI to get sound to his receiver and he gets the full 7.1 that the game produces.  Sounds incredible.
 
Another friend of mine also plays StarCraft 2 on his ODE-3 and tried using the S/PDIF optical out for the sound...only gets 2 channels and it doesn't sound good at all.
 
For those of us that want to run our PC game audio through a good receiver, is the mini-HDMI the best way to do that (w/o buying a sound card) ?
 
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