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    Recommend me a 5.1 soundcard w/ sp/dif output

    Seeing as the nforce3 board in my shuttle cant output dolby digital 5.1 I need a soundcard which can. has to be a single slot solution as its going in the shuttle. only other requirement is that it works (properly in games like hl2/cs:source) and has a sp/dif output (coaxial) for my speakers

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    edit: anything wrong with this cheap and tacky card?

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    Get the Soundblaster Audigy, that can be found for real cheap and used to be the high end sound card a year or two back... or you could get the Audigy 2 ZS which is far easier to find, and can be purchased for around £35 OEM, which is a bargain.

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    Yup, I agree - works like a charm for me.

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    looks like i need some kind of funky cable so that i can get the coaxial sp/dif out of the digital out on the audigy? i've got a cable which came with my speakers which has a kind stereo plug (but with 3 bands) and then 2 coax leads - one marked 'pcm data' and the other marked 'ac3 data'... which would i use?

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