7.1 Audio From MB Through Video Card HDMI

[ianxponent]

I'm considering a GA-G41M-ES2L motherboard for my first HTPC and plan on using an existing video card which has HDMI output. I've tested everything using an old Foxconn motherboard (which turned out to be too noisy for HTPC use.) New board has onboard video so I assume I will have to disable that in the BIOS for the separate video card to work. Is there anything else I will need to do to ensure that the MB's 7.1 audio is passed through to the video card HDMI port? It seemed to do this automatically on the Foxconn board but then it lacked onboard video. Video card is an MSI R4350-MD512H. Thanks.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

You shouldn't have any trouble. I think on that board the onboard graphics will be automatically disabled on the insertion of a discrete GPU but if not it is easy to disable so no worries there. The output for the HD sound is configurable through the control panel in Windows.