Video CardSound Card question

Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:35 am

I am building a new computer. My video card has an HDMI input, as does my monitor. I also have the options for DVI or VGA. I know HDMI also does sound, but I want the sound to continue playing through my sound card and speakers. Will hooking my video card to my monitor override my soundcard for audio?
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Del Arte
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:38 pm

Only if you set it to use the HDMI device. If you set your sound card as the default device then it will still play through your speakers.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 8:23 pm

I am building a new computer. My video card has an HDMI input, as does my monitor. I also have the options for DVI or VGA. I know HDMI also does sound, but I want the sound to continue playing through my sound card and speakers. Will hooking my video card to my monitor override my soundcard for audio?

It shouldn't override the sound card, but you can always just use DVI.

DVI and HDMI are absolutely 100% identical exept for one thing: HDMI has audio and DVI is just the video. Both are digital signals, so if you really want to be sure just use DVI for your video and link the speakers into your sound card normal-like.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:01 am

I am building a new computer. My video card has an HDMI input, as does my monitor. I also have the options for DVI or VGA. I know HDMI also does sound, but I want the sound to continue playing through my sound card and speakers. Will hooking my video card to my monitor override my soundcard for audio?

HDMI devices with Audio capability will show up as an Audio device in your Device Manager. For example my AMD Radeon 4870X2 will have AMD High Definition Audio Device listed.

As Narmy stated, as long as you don't make this the primary audio device it won't change anything.

I use a Creative XFi card and use a HDMI connection on my monitor (well DVI to HDMI, as the GPU doesn't have a HDMI port on the back).

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Edit: Just so you know audio is mapped over the DVI connection on the Radeon. Though it only works when the receiving source is HDMI or another device that maps HDMI functionality over DVI.
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