Asus P5W DH User Manual

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe 5-19
Using Dolby
®
Digital Live™
The Dolby
®
Digital Live™ technology encodes your computer’s digital audio
contents to real-time Dolby
®
Digital streams. Using the CODEC and the Sony/
Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) ports on the motherboard, you can send the
encoded Dolby
®
Digital streams to an AC-3 decoder for playback on a multi-
channel speaker system.
Refer to the following illustrations when converting sounds to Dolby
®
Digital
streams.
Direct or non-encoded audio
in your computer passes
through the AC-3 encoder.
1
2
The AC-3 encoder
converts the sound into
Dolby
®
Digital streams.
Realtek
®
ALC882M
CODEC
3
The audio CODEC processes
the streams then passes it to an
AC-3 decoder through the S/PDIF
out port.
4
The AC-3 decoder
processes the streams
then plays them back on
a multi-channel speaker
system.
To enable the Dolby
®
Digital Live™:
1. Connect an AC-3 decoder to the
coaxial/optical S/PDIF out port.
2. Connect the AC-3 decoder to the
multi-channel speaker system.
3. Launch the Realtek HD Audio
Manager by double clicking the
Realtek HD Audio Manager icon on
the Windows
®
taskbar.
4. Click the Dolby Digital Live
button. You can now convert your
computer’s audio content to Dolby
®
Digital streams.

Asus P5W DH Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel 975X
Socket	LGA 775
FSB	1066/800/533 MHz
Memory Type	DDR2
Maximum Memory	8GB
Memory Standard	DDR2 800/667/533
Form Factor	ATX
Audio Chipset	ADI AD1988B
LAN Speed	10/100/1000 Mbps
Storage	4 x SATA 3Gb/s
SATA RAID	RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
PS/2	2
USB 2.0	8 x USB 2.0
IEEE 1394	2 x IEEE 1394a
Audio Ports	6 Ports
Supported CPU	Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Pentium D / Pentium 4 / Celeron
Memory Slots	4
Audio	8-channel
LAN	Dual LAN
LAN Chipset	Marvell 88E8053
Expansion Slots	2 x PCIe x16
S/PDIF Out	Optical