2 Responses

1. Jibadeaux Fox

   07|Feb|2010 1

   That depends on the sound card. If it uses optical out or hdmi then all you need to do is run a cable from the output of the soundcard into any free input on your receiver. If it’s 8 individual output jacks then you need to run one cable from each output into the 7.1 individual inputs on the receiver.
   I mean, really… you hook the output from the soundcard into the input on the receiver… there’s nothing tough about it.

2. ZshadeZ

   07|Feb|2010 2

   You really have two options. If you have some kind of digital output on your sound card (HDMI, Optical, SPDIF) you can use that to bypass your sound card’s processing and let your 7.1 Surround Sound receiver do it all. This is by far the simpler option and uses only one coaxial or HDMI cable going from your computer to your receiver.
   The other option would be to let your computer’s sound card decode the sound into 7.1 channels, which then need to be run to discreet inputs on the back of your receiver. This would be 4 cables going from PC to receiver.
   What model of sound card and receiver are you using?