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    Asus M6 aka Z70v and spdif and DVI ?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by b|lly, Dec 12, 2006.

  1. b|lly

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    Hello.

    Im wondering about my SPDIF outpout and cannot find the answer myself. Is it only digital or is it optical too. Because then I turn it "on" there is a red light coming from the output and when it turn it "off" its gone. Is this only indicator or does it mean it is an optical spdif output?

    Another questions is the DVI...can I somehow use it, via some external device, because original port replicatator does not have it. Is there some device, maybe an PCMCIA or something similar?
     
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  2. Mr.Pigeon

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    That red light is the optical toslink laser. You'll need a toslink to mini-plug adapter to use it.

    DVI requires a very high throughput bandwidth, which unfortunately PCMCIA cannot provide. You'll need an ExpressCard port to acheive this.

    Cheers.
     
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    That's a whole separate video card all together. You'll only have 16bit color at 1920x1200 and you won't be able to play any games besides Tetris.
     
    loopty, Dec 22, 2006
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