Just found that my GTS250 comes with SPDIF wires

While installing my RMA-ed Palit 250GTS, I just found out that it comes with an SPDIF wire. I know which end of my graphics card to connect to, but I'm not sure which part of my motherboard the other end goes to - the other end has two connectors, one says GND and the other is just a blank.

I'm not good with this, so bear with me.

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At least, I think it's an SPDIF cable. It looks something like this, except the wires are just black and red and aren't twirly:

http://216.158.218.35/edoc/bios_uploads/HDMI_SPDIF1.jpg

 

That 2nd one next to GND is SPDIF.

 

Thanks. Is it necessary to use those wires at all?

 

Do you still have your motherboard manual?

 

No not really, unless your monitor or TV has speakers that you prefer to use and your sound card sucks. You can stream audio from your videocard through SPDIF.

 

Yeah, but I can't determine which is the correct part to connect it to.

 

Having looked through your motherboard manual i've determined the only S/pdif connector you have is on the backpanel.. coaxial and optical.. you dont have the 2 pin digital spdif connector on your motherboard.. so you cant connect the cable to your onboard sound.

The only reason you would connect this cable in the first place is to get spdif sound passthrough from the soundcard via the dvi to hdmi cable or similar to a tv.

Had a similar setup with my gts250.. dvi to hdmi cable.. 40" sony fullhd tv.. was pretty good... untill i broke my hdmi cable had sound and video through the same cable.

 

Ah that's cool. I don't really need the SPDIF anyway, I'm not much of an audiophile and I can do with my onboard Realtek. Thanks

 

Even some mid grade sound cards come with a SPDiF header so you can send the signal from it to your GPU to connect to a receiver/TV/Monitor.