Help with Audio Output on computer

[Wyrm]

Now I thought most video cards had audio output as well as video output, however neither ATI or NVidia is willing to share their output properties with me (at least not on their web-site).[right][snapback]65972[/snapback][/right]

Just out of curiosity, where in the world did you hear that? No video card made today has an audio chip on it, they're already too cluttered with the gpu and memory (and all those other little things that make video work). The closest I've seen to what you described would be a motherboard with integrated audio and video. Most new motherboards have an optical output on them, also.

it would be fun to output to my television

FYI, video output to a tv is still rather poor in quality compared to a monitor designed for computers. That'll probably change in a few years with further techy developments on plasma and video cards, but neither nvidia or ati actually seem interested in developing computer/tv connections at the moment. Maybe once they make their gpus that can run Doom 3 at 500 fps... Also fyi, LCD monitors are still too slow for gaming when you go larger than a 17" (I think the fastest 19" lcd is still over 20ms... Edit: Ok, so I saw a 19" at 16ms. No idea about the quality though, it's from a namebrand I've never heard of.). That's going to change within the next year, though.