Updated Jul 20, 2009 by dogber1
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SupportedDevices

Incomplete list of supported devices

Supported Devices

All the PCI cards listed below have digital ports (S/PDIF)

Vendor	Model	Optical S/PDIF (TOSLink)	Electrical S/PDIF (Coax)	Low Profile	Remarks
AOpen	Cobra 5.1 Deluxe / Cobra AW 850Deluxe	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
	Cobra AW 870LP	Yes	No	Yes	Regular sized bracket
ASound	A-51DG-LP	Yes	No	Yes
	A-71DG-LP	Yes	No	Yes
	A-8768-8C	Yes	No	No
	A-8768-8C+	Yes	No	No	8768+ chip
Asus	A7V333-X	No	Yes	No	Motherboard with a 8738 chip onboard
	P4B533	No	Yes	No	Motherboard with a 8738 chip onboard
AudioExcel	AV511	No	Yes	No
AuzenTech	HDA X-Mystique 7.1 Gold	Yes	Yes	No	8768+ chip; heavily overpriced
Club 3D	Theatron DD	Yes	Yes	No	8768+ chip
Diablotek	7.1 Tremor	Yes	No	No	widely available in the USA/Canada
Diamond	Xtreme Sound 7.1	Yes	No	No	8768+ chip
Dynex	DX-SC71 7.1	Yes	No	No
Formosa	SC3000	Yes	Yes	No
	SC8768P	Yes	No	No	8768+ chip
Hitpoint	HCMI-5.1CH-KR	Yes	No	No
	HCMI-5.1CH-M1	Yes	No	Yes
	HCMI-5.1CH-M2	Yes	No	Yes	Regular sized bracket
	HCMI-5.1CH-M3	Yes	No	Yes	Regular sized bracket
	HCMI-5.1CH-ML2	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
	HCMI-7.1CH	No	Yes	No
HT Omega	Striker 7.1	Yes	Yes	No	8768+ chip; overpriced
InnoAX	Audio Extreme 5.1	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
Leadtek	Winfast 6XSound	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
M-Audio/Midiman	DiO 2448	Yes	Yes	No
Manhattan	7.1 PCI Sound Card	No	Yes	No	pin header for additional SPDIF ports
Mediatek	SY-MX-6D	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
	SY-8768	Yes	No	No
Philips	PSC604/00 (Dynamic Edge 4.1)	No	Yes	No
Qware	SC-100	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
SIIG	SoundWave 7.1 PCI (IC-710012)	No	Yes	No
Speed-Link	SL-8870	Yes	No	No
	SL-8871-SRD	Yes	No	No
Sweex	SC003	Yes	Yes	Yes	Regular sized bracket
	SC005	Yes	No	No
	SC015	No	Yes	No	pin header for additional SPDIF ports
Sunsway / ST Lab	C-Media 7.1	No	Yes	No	pin header for additional SPDIF ports
Techsolo	TC-B71	Yes	No	No
Terratec	Aureon 5.1 Fun	Yes	No	No
	Aureon 5.1 PCI	Yes	No	No	Widely available in Germany
	Aureon 7.1 PCI	Yes	No	No	8768+ chip
Trust	SC-5200	No	Yes	No	Widely available in the UK.
	SC-5250 (Sound Expert 514DX)	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports; widely available in the UK
	SC-7200 (Sound Expert 714DX)	No	Yes	No
	SC-7600	Yes	No	No
Turtle Beach	Montego DDL 7.1	Yes	No	No	8768+ chip
	Riviera 5.1	Yes	No	No	Widely available in the USA
Typhoon	Acoustic Six 5+1	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports
Ultron	OctoSound 7.1	Yes	No	No
Z-Cyber/Zoltrix	Nightingale Pro 6	Yes	Yes	No	Additional bracket for digital ports

This list is far from being complete: there are literally hundreds of brands, and C-Media chips are very popular in the low cost sector. If you can't find your card in this list, but you are certain that it has a C-Media 8738 or 8768 chip, the driver will work. There's effectively just one reference hardware design in use by all the manufacturers - there are some minor deviations, but these have no effect on the core functionality of the driver.

If you plan to buy such a card, make sure that there's a C-Media 8738 or 8768 chip on the board and that there are dedicated digital connectors. The standard version of these cards (without Dolby Live!) are widely available for roughly 15-20 USD/EUR (e.g. on eBay). The brave who are comfortable with soldering fine pitch connections can go for cheapest version of the card and install an SPDIF out connector by themselves as described here. There are other, also very cheap versions which have been a full pin header containing the signals for SPDIF in/out: a beautiful mod is described here.

If you are successfully using the driver with a soundcard which isn't listed here, please mail me the device name (e.g. Trust SC-5250), the operating system (e.g. Windows Vista Home Premium) and the device/vendor ID.

Comment by jeroendvr, Feb 15, 2008

Fantastic driver, My HTPC with a trust sc-5250 soundcard puts through DTS brilliantly now! I dont understand why C-media deliberately refuses to deliver the option themselves, but this works too, thanx!

Jeroen de Vries

Comment by phaedrus.galt, Jul 24, 2008

Is the 8788 supported? Will it be?

Comment by phaedrus.galt, Aug 07, 2008

Echo echo!

Comment by dogber1, Aug 08, 2008

The 8788 is not supported, and because its chip design is completely different in comparison to its predecessors, I'm afraid it never will be.

Comment by phaedrus.galt, Sep 30, 2008

Thanks for the update, dog(ber)!

Comment by rivanvx, Dec 23, 2008

How about 8770?

Comment by dogber1, Dec 23, 2008

8770 = 8768+, so it's supported, but you lose the dolby digital live feature when using the driver provided on this site.

Comment by mikezmail, Dec 24, 2008

Just making sure, but I get a notice that my soundmax drivers must be reinstalled. I no longer need the soundmax drivers since I have your driver correct? Just making sure. Awesome job with this driver BTW!

Comment by dogber1, Dec 28, 2008

you can happily ignore the notification about the soundmax driver.

Comment by Jace.deHodossy, Jan 21, 2009

THANKS dogber, your drivers rock! I've just purchased a cheap sound card in order to use my yamaha receiver to decode DD/DTS. Works great. - - - OEM LDLC 7.1 surround sound card http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00036388.html

Comment by James45168, Mar 25, 2009

Have some silent setup issue!! When i click "master volume" to "Mute all" still have sound. Can't mute all.

Comment by dogber1, Mar 25, 2009

Frank, I've written you an email some time ago concerning this. Also, the big picture might be annoying for users who have only limited internet connectivity, so I am forced to remove your comment.

James, please read the FAQ.

Comment by gazsi...@freemail.hu, Apr 19, 2009

Your driver is working properly with: Stlab 8768 PCI soundcard, with additional homemade bracket, for the onboard header... optical in and out, but i haven't tried the onboard coax spdif out...

under windows XP, i don't know vendor id, but your driver says Hardware rev.:'68'

Comment by gazsi...@freemail.hu, Apr 19, 2009

alsa.cybermirror.org/manuals/cmi/CMI8738_spec_v06_reg.doc

for anyone trying to build an own bracket... cmi 8738 is pin compatible with 8768 and there is a reference design for the optical in and out int this document... using totx178 and torx178...

www.orpheuscomputing.com/downloads/CMI8768-datasheet.pdf and this is the pinout for 8768, but nothing new compared to 8738... good luck for builders

Comment by gazsi...@freemail.hu, May 23, 2009

I've found a 'new' card looking very similar, or the same:) as the ST lab, I've mentioned before, it's called Manhattan 7.1 PCI here is a link for the card at the brand's site:

http://www.manhattan-products.com/en-US/products/5851-pci-sound-card

Comment by dogber1, May 26, 2009

added, thanks for the hint.

Comment by nelsontranslation, May 31, 2009

I've struggled to find a low profile card with optical output, so have added coax/optical outputs to a very basic 8738 card. Some details here

Comment by dogber1, May 31, 2009

That's a very nice hack! I'll put up a link to your page.

Comment by jeeagle, Nov 12, 2009

Great driver. It's working properly (after the hack to get round the signing restrictions on 64-bit Windows 7) with the Trust SC-5100, which has solved a mighty annoyance - the SC-5100 is supposed to be W7 compatible, but I have an undocumented older version which isn't...