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Question about using HDMI and 3.5mm Audio Jack on Mobo

wade7575

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I have never tried this before and was just wondering if I have a graphic's card and I'll be running an ARC A580 with an X870E mobo.

What I was wondering is can you run the video threw HDMI and then use the 3.5mm jack on your mobo for audio rather then the graphic's cards built in audio.

With all the PC's I have built I have never played with that for any of my customers it's I just hook them up via HDMI video and audio or VGA or DVI and the 3.5mm audio cable.

The reason I ask this is because if the audio chipset on the video card is crap in comparison to what's on the mobo I'd like to be to switch to the mobo's audio output.
 
wade7575 said:
I have never tried this before and was just wondering if I have a graphic's card and I'll be running an ARC A580 with an X870E mobo.

What I was wondering is can you run the video threw HDMI and then use the 3.5mm jack on your mobo for audio rather then the graphic's cards built in audio.

With all the PC's I have built I have never played with that for any of my customers it's I just hook them up via HDMI video and audio or VGA or DVI and the 3.5mm audio cable.

The reason I ask this is because if the audio chipset on the video card is crap in comparison to what's on the mobo I'd like to be to switch to the mobo's audio output.
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Yes, you'll have the option to select which audio source you want to use for output. You can even go so far as to specify different default sources for specific apps (I set my Amazon Music app to optical in order to send it to my receiver).
 
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sswilson said:
Yes, you'll have the option to select which audio source you want to use for output. You can even go so far as to specify different default sources for specific apps (I set my Amazon Music app to optical in order to send it to my receiver).
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Thanks that's great to know,I kind of figured it worked that way but I wasn't 100% certain that it did.
 
I feel like you might be chasing the wrong problem. Onboard motherboards DACs are passable but not great. GPUs don't even do a DAC processing since audio leaves the GPU in digital format.

That means your either transmitting something weird (sound processing of some kind) sending digital surround when the destination expects stereo, etc...

Or what ever your sending to it isn't handling it well, and it isn't likely going to handle the analog version much better.
 
I never use the audio from the HDMI because all my pc's are hooked to TV's and I don't want to use the TV speakers, so I used to do HDMI for video and 3.5mm jack for audio, over the last few years I have switched to Spdif to soundbars. I know all the audio people hate me but it works just fine for my use case.
 
gingerbee said:
I never use the audio from the HDMI because all my pc's are hooked to TV's and I don't want to use the TV speakers, so I used to do HDMI for video and 3.5mm jack for audio, over the last few years I have switched to Spdif to soundbars. I know all the audio people hate me but it works just fine for my use case.
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oooh, you're one of 'those' people...eh?
 
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