I used to hook my video adaptewr straight to receiover for audio and video and then connect the receiver to monitor with HDMI and this worked fine with old card but the new has the audio cut off and sometimes loud bang as well from speaker which might be due potential differencies betweem electrical outlet ground, but then again that should also cauyse problem with old card. My integrated video card has better audio although it also cut off every now and then so it might be AMD drivers or some software issue, but i have noty tried the integrated video at all before this.
I also havew optical audio and that could be good too, but the integrated realtek on ROG X570-E does not seem to support anything else than stereo on optical output Still the quality would be better i guess, but my optical cable is faulty so i use the oldest possible i have, the audio jack stereo output.
Problem with using audio from integrated is that it always seems to end up designated as display 1 even while BIOS setting says otherwise and while i was able to make it run perfewctly for a while by cloning the diisplays, windows reverted everything back to non working state on next reboot. Im beginning to thing that some sound card would be better but they also come with many different audio qualities and output issues.
Seems like tweaking things in todays Windows is much more hard than it once was due overautomation over user control.
