[NVIDIA] HD audio Passthrough (1 Viewer)

[FlexQ]

Oy Mates

I have the past few days been trying to find out what my next new mediacentre gfx should be.

Currently my setup is as follows:

amd 64x2 3800+
2 gb ddr2.
gf7200GS

it plays 720p fine without any problems, but it has some (quite alot) difficulties with 1080p (surprise?).

That is why i want to upgrade, but at the same time i want to secure it for the future - so which nvidia gfx's has hd audio passthrough ?

I have failed to get the information myself, it just doesent show up any of the places that i have been searching.

Hope you can help

Henrik

 

[jackpenno]

As far as I know, none of the current Nvidia cards support bitstreaming of HD audio formats (ie TruHD), which is the advantage of the current ATI cards (5xxx). Both cards however can decode to 8 channel LPCM, which is lossless and theoretically the exact same quality. The difference lies in whether the computer decodes or your receiver does. For a good breakdown of current cards and their capabilities check:

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