how do i hook up my home theatre to my pc??

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Stemz

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Nov 27, 2013
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So I've been tying to connect my pc to my home theatre since its a 7.1 surround sound system but i could only seem to get it to run stereo 2.0 i probably don't have the required equipment my mother board has 5.0 audio. My gpu is a nvidia 760, the card had true audio but i have no clue what that is lol I'm kind of new to this would i need a audio card to run 7.1?
 
Solution


If your amplifier supports HDMI, use that and read no further.

If your amplifier does not support HDMI, your options are limited to what can be accomplished with optical audio using the S/PDIF protocol.

As far as audio is concerned, HDMI supports the following:

Up to 8 channels of LPCM (uncompressed digital audio) at a data rate of 24 bits per sample and 192,000...