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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MegaPVR_Rack" data-source="post: 528584" data-attributes="member: 85602">;PWhat do you mean with "tight fit"? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />The Xonar card is for bitstreaming TrueHD/DTS-HD to the receiver. Since the Radeon onboard HDMI can transmit only multichannel PCM and is a mess to manage in XP, I connected it directly to the small TV in 2ch mode <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> and I connected the DVI out to the Xonar DVI IN, then Xonar's HDMI out to the Onkyo HDMI2 (DVR), then Onkyo HDMI OUT to the projector <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />, a little complex but works like a charm and straight out of the box with TMT3, so far tried with 16/48 TrueHD and 24/48 DTS-HD MA, since here we have only these as HD soundtracks for BDs... and often only in English <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />. Tonight I might test it with DTS-HD HiRes since Terminator 2 has English in 6.1 DTS-HD MA and Italian in 5.1 DTS-HD HiRes <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />. Here, no 24/96 BD yet... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />The Marvell card is a $30 one, 88SE6145 chip was mounted onboard on some Asus motherboards, but never worked properly. In the add-in card version, works flawlessly apart one thing: it seems not to recognize properly 4 identical 1.0 TB HDDs, one of them is always missing from the BIOS screen. It is a Pci-Express X1 card, Addonics X8 cards use another controller. But if you like the huge bandwidth (twice the Intel DMI bandwidth) that X8 provides, you'd better buy some professional controller card, like Promise EX4650 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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