Check if your Z390 or Z490 board supports Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect.
Check if your Z390 or Z490 board supports Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect.
Hello all, so... i currently have a Z390 Maximus XI Apex for the i9900k. I like overclocking and that Board is awesome for it! At the same time i value good sound at audiophile grade. I play mostly with Headphones, but i like the occasional racing in Project Cars 2. For that i always used the Soundblaster ZxR, because it has Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect. Which give me Live Rendering of the 5.1 Sound thats happening ingame. Awesome for me! But there are 2 reasons, why i want to stop using a seperate soundcard for my PC. 1. Airflow for my GPU which gets significantly hotter when its sharing space with a Soundcard. 2.The Soundcard is blocking 4Pcie Lanes which leads to the GPU only having 8 Lanes to work with. As far as i know, there are MB's with "DTS: X Ultra" which is essentially just software. But i haven't found any with explicit Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect declaration. For now i keep my Z390 Board anyways, but it would just interest me if there's any of them, that have one of the codecs. BUT for the future, i might buy a Z490 and if thats the case, are there any with said codecs yet? I looked some up, but maybe i overlooked stuff or its more hidden than i thought. Thanks in advance EDIT: No i don't want to use HDMI