<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Bill Williamson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@bbqninja.com">bill@bbqninja.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is a palit fanless card with passthrough:<br>
<a href="http://www.megaprice.it/images/Palit_9500GT_512.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.megaprice.it/images/Palit_9500GT_512.jpg</a><br>
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They give you a nice little cable to plug from your mobo audio into a<br>
little white jack on the video card to get audio passthrough for hdmi.<br>
Take a look at that image... and the more noticable jack that you<br>
might plug your motherboard audio into.<br>
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Now look at their same card WITH a fan:<br>
<a href="http://www.palit.biz/product/vga/picture/Bp00732-pic3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.palit.biz/product/vga/picture/Bp00732-pic3.jpg</a><br>
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Oh.... that's not audio in, that's fan power out :(<br>
They have used the EXACT same connector plug for the unused fan jack<br>
and the audio input jack. Putting 5v to the signal pin of your<br>
motherboard's digital audio is not a good thing :( They do NOT mark<br>
the audio port well, and do not mark the fan port at ALL. So watch<br>
what you're plugging into!<br>
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One motherboard poorer, one lesson in life richer.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Ouch. Sorry to hear that. =\ <br></div></div><br>