Recommend me a Optical, S/PDIF PC Sound Card

[quakerroatmeal 10+ year member]

Well I need the cheapest decent sound card that has optical output. I am tired of using dinky 2 crappy speakers to listen to music on the computer when I got a big 5.1 surround sound in my room. I need an optical sound card so I could hook it up to my receiver. The cheaper the better but must be decent.

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[quakerroatmeal 10+ year member]

Nobody knows any?

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

I haven't done any research, but you need to go to newegg.com and check to see what is available. You might have already done that

 

[quakerroatmeal 10+ year member]

Yup did that, just curious if anyone knew any others. I have read about Chaintech AV-710 but there is only one I found and it's on ebay.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Hmmm, I'd like to know as well. I can run optical instead of headphone to headphone from my pc to receiver