First post, by appiah4
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I'm in the process of building some PCs and I'm short on CD-ROM Audio Cables. Before I rush out and buy some, I wanted to ask some questions that bugged me since forever..
First of all, are CD-ROM audio cables absolutely necessary? I know that at some point in time, the CD-ROM audio data started to get transferred to the sound cards through the PCI bus, but I don't know which sound cards or systems or OSs can do this and which ones can't; Would I be correct to assume I need one for all Pre-Live! PCI cards (and all ISA cards) and Pre-XP OSs?
Secondly, in the case that the card/os/driver can pass the CD-ROM audio through the PCI bus, is this compatible with games that play Redbook audio music?
Last of all, when there is the option of connecting the CD-ROM to the sound card using a CDROM SPDIF cable, is this a direct replacement and inherently a better choice? And is this compatible with Redbook Audio music?
Thanks 😀
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