>>55407094
optical out?

maybe because of the price you're shopping for

Just get a USB interface

Or a HDMI extractor

what's wrong with coaxial s/pdif?

>>55407107
>>55407155

I can use a sound card, easy fix. It's just annoying that I have to do so.

>>55407231
presumably it's because more and more people are just using HDMI to transmit multichannel audio
i can only assume you aren't because your receiver is old enough not to have HDMI in/out

>>55407094
>impossible to find a low to mid range motherboard with it
found the problem ya cheapass

>>55407385

Nah, just none come with it. That are available in Australia at least.

Need 4 or more SATA ports, 1151 socket, and a M2 slot. Can't find anything of the sort locally.

>>55407239

Going to an old pair of Roland Cakewalks, good speaker/DAC combo and couldn't really be assed moving over to something else.

>>55407094
Literally every Asus board comes with one.

>>55407239
optical if i remember right compresses on more than 2 channels, could be wrong, but hdmi is the only way to get full uncompressed audio.

>>55407764
it technically allows up to 6 uncompressed channels and that kinda made it to the spec. But it happened right after everyone stopped caring, so there are literally zero devices available who work with the updated version of the spec.
I personally feel bummed about it, as I use S/PDIF myself