Motherboard Audio help needed

MrDenington

Hey everyone.

Need some help.

Im away to build a new gaming rig and was wondering if it matters what audio codec the Motherboard has?

I will be using it for playing music, watching movies and gaming.

It will be connected to my sony str-dn1080 reciver using a HDMI cable.

So will the receiver benefit from a better board with a better codec?

Thanks

just reading this back and thinking it will be connected to the gpu anyway. will that make a difference?

am i best to use a optical cable from the board?

the board im looking at has
Realtek® ALC1220P-VB2 Codec.

EndlessWaves

The audio chip won't matter if you're not using it, which you won't be if you're using your graphics card's HDMI audio device instead.

It primarily makes a difference if you're using analogue outputs where it'll affect sound quality. If you're using a digital output like S/PDIF then the differences lie mainly in features such as real time dolby digital compression for games (required to get 5.1 over S/PDIF) or headphone virtualisation.

So basically ignore it unless there's a particular piece of audio processing you want that your current setup doesn't provide.

MrDenington

Thanks for that dude.