try pin point where's the enemy come from when playing shooting games with only stereo. in games, 5 channel beats 2 channel anytime.


yup, thats pro-logic 2 only, 2 channel upmix to 5 channel never win against true 5 channel.


if your sound card support optical-in and then can downmix 5.1 to 4 channel, you're good to go.

there are 2 type of optical cable head. one is with the normal square holder. the other one without the square holder. the small hole that you referring to might be the type without the square holder. if can post a picture here. there are optical cable sold that has one end with the normal square holder and another end without the square holder, and i have bought it, coz didn't check properly.

regarding optical cable quality, there should be no difference whether branded or china made cable, coz (IIRC) inside the cable is glasses/plastic to pass thru the light pulse, unlike the conventional copper wires cable.

EDIT: found a picture

the normal square holder cable are like the blue cable while without the square holder are like the black one.

This post has been edited by xxboxx: Dec 23 2006, 03:00 AM

not so sure, coz the middle "thing" that stuck out from the square holder is quite short. you getting it for the 3rd party VGA cable or component?

so you get the one with square holder?