It'll be the one with your mic in it, I'm pretty sure. Refer to your documentation and double check, but I'm 95% certain. You need an adapter that'll make one of those RCA coax cables fit in that socket.White-Fusion wrote:
Yeah theres a Green, Pink and Black set going into back of Sound card from the Sub woofer on my current surround sound. And the one that is lit up has my mic in it.Bertster7 wrote:
Are you familiar with a 3.5mm line audio jack? The sort you get for walkman headphones and suchlike (which will fit the flexijack port on the back of the X-Fi, the port that isn't colour coded).White-Fusion wrote:
So what do i need to buy?
Are you familiar with a Coax RCA cable? As in the three cables you often plug into the front of TVs, one yellow (video), one white and one red (both audio channels) - but only a single one of those cables.
Wheres my mic gonna go then?Bertster7 wrote:
It'll be the one with your mic in it, I'm pretty sure. Refer to your documentation and double check, but I'm 95% certain. You need an adapter that'll make one of those RCA coax cables fit in that socket.White-Fusion wrote:
Yeah theres a Green, Pink and Black set going into back of Sound card from the Sub woofer on my current surround sound. And the one that is lit up has my mic in it.Bertster7 wrote:
Are you familiar with a 3.5mm line audio jack? The sort you get for walkman headphones and suchlike (which will fit the flexijack port on the back of the X-Fi, the port that isn't colour coded).
Are you familiar with a Coax RCA cable? As in the three cables you often plug into the front of TVs, one yellow (video), one white and one red (both audio channels) - but only a single one of those cables.
Maybe I should of added impBertster7 wrote:
Are you familiar with a 3.5mm line audio jack? The sort you get for walkman headphones and suchlike (which will fit the flexijack port on the back of the X-Fi, the port that isn't colour coded).White-Fusion wrote:
So what do i need to buy?Bertster7 wrote:
No. They aren't.
Optical 1 is grey. Optical 2 is grey. Coaxial is grey.
Great colour coding.
In fact for an X-Fi, he'll need to use Coax, since there is no optical out (though the onboard sound has an optical connector). The Coax SPDIF port on the back of an X-Fi is only 3.5mm, so an adapter will be essential (available at Maplin, RS, Farnells etc. for about 50p).
Are you familiar with a Coax RCA cable? As in the three cables you often plug into the front of TVs, one yellow (video), one white and one red (both audio channels) - but only a single one of those cables.Bad idea. RAID decreases access times. The biggest benefit a Raptor has is low access times. If you want fast data transfer rates you use RAID, but that is far more practical with cheaper higher capacity drives.ceslayer23 wrote:
I would highly suggest getting a second 150GB Raptor and putting it in RAID 0. Having just one Raptor is a waste of money because the performance gain is not even noticable compared to a 7200RPM HDD. But if you put 2 10000RPM HDDs together you will get the full performance.
That's what I did with my 74GB Raptor.
Just my 2 centsIt's not better. If anything it's not as good, but the difference is so minuscule it's not worth worrying about. But that won't go straight in his X-Fi, he needs a little adapter so it'll fit.Bell wrote:
Coaxil, its better than an optical cable anyways.
He can't use optical (not through his X-Fi at least).
I have a Yamaha RX-V3800 and, to my mind, the coaxil seems to have a warmer sound, tho thts probably an opinion.
Although, like you said, minuite difference is negligable.
Martyn
Dunno.White-Fusion wrote:
Wheres my mic gonna go then?Bertster7 wrote:
It'll be the one with your mic in it, I'm pretty sure. Refer to your documentation and double check, but I'm 95% certain. You need an adapter that'll make one of those RCA coax cables fit in that socket.White-Fusion wrote:
Yeah theres a Green, Pink and Black set going into back of Sound card from the Sub woofer on my current surround sound. And the one that is lit up has my mic in it.
It'd be awkward trying to multiplex the signals together. But connecting those speakers through analog is just a complete waste of money. You'd be better off using your onboard audio (cue millions of people, who don't know what they're talking about, whinging about how using the X-Fi would be much better) if you need a mic to function as well - thus eliminating any need for complicated adapters and giving you a choice between optical and coax.
I used to use an X-Fi, but after installing Vista 64-bit the lack of compatible drivers (that supported SPDIF passthrough) caused me to pull it out and start using onboard sound. The only drawback is the loss of maybe as much as 1-2 FPS in games, due to doing the audio processing through software.
Last edited by Bertster7 (2007-12-13 12:51:43)
So put the speakers into the soundcard
and mic into onboard?
and mic into onboard?