[mythtv-users] Chaintech 7nif2 and sound

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Chris Thompson wrote:

>As to your question, regarding SPDIF, my board came with no SPDIF port
>adapter. I wasn't worried, since, I had no immediate plans for it. But when
>I went to try to locate the port dongle for sale, I couldn't find it. I
>read the reviews on newegg, and sure enough, the place on the motherboard
>for the SPDIF header is just blank traces, no pins.
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Newegg must be selling some odd 7NIF2's then. They should ALL have the 
spdif connector on them.  Getting the SPDIF dongle is a pain ($16 from 
rma at chaintech.com) but they should all support it.


>So, overall, I recommend this board highly, though I'd caution you to not
>expect SPDIF and to be willing to play with memory settings.
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I put one stick of 2700 in each of slots 1 and 3 and it booted up into 
dual channel DDR mode just fine...