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First post, by squiggly

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Both the Diamond MX300 and Turtle Beach Montego II have alleged support for S/PDIF via daughterboards that attach via special headers, and which are rarer than the mystical Nvidia Voodoo6 6500 with hardware T&L and DX8 support.

Does anyone know if it's possible to hack a generic S/PDIF bracket with RCA and TosLink jacks onto either of the above cards using tricks like Phil recently demonstrated with the SB Live!? Is it surely a matter of finding the right pins that correspond to pins on the brackets, or do the daughterboards do more that is required for this to work?

https://youtu.be/rVNSyRAwVXs

Also, does anyone know of a good DAC with more than three inputs? The following is almost perfect, but something almost exactly the same but with 4 digital inputs would be pretty much spot on.

https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/en/products/hi … ma/dacmagic-100

Reply 1 of 5, by ZanQuance

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[Montego II I2S jack]
[2][4][6][8]
[1][3][5][7]

pin 6 is your S/PDIF output
Use the Montego2 Quadzilla drivers instead and then unmute the S/PDIF playback output on the card and it works fine.

Reply 2 of 5, by squiggly

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ZanQuance wrote:
[Montego II I2S jack] [2][4][6][8] [1][3][5][7] […]
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[Montego II I2S jack]
[2][4][6][8]
[1][3][5][7]

pin 6 is your S/PDIF output
Use the Montego2 Quadzilla drivers instead and then unmute the S/PDIF playback output on the card and it works fine.

Cool. I wonder if the mx300 is that simple...it has a big parallel port at the back. Its my preferred vortex2 currently.

Reply 4 of 5, by RogueTrip2012

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Optical on this guy > http://www.hardware-one.com/reviews/sonicvortex2/sv2-3.shtml

> W98SE . P3 1.4S . 512MB . Q.FX3K . SB Live! . 64GB SSD
>WXP/W8.1 . AMD 960T . 8GB . GTX285 . SB X-Fi . 128GB SSD
> Win XI . i7 12700k . 32GB . GTX1070TI . 512GB NVME

Reply 5 of 5, by maverick85

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RogueTrip2012 wrote on 2018-04-19, 23:44:

hi, whats the pinout to get dvd digtal out to this card? i would like the cleanest cd audio from games

ASRock 98
Win98SE Desktop
ASRock
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
1 x 512MB 667 MHz DDR2
Soundblaster SB0100 + Altec Lansing ADA885
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB GDDR3
1 x SATA 120GB HDD
1 x SATA DVD-RW