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Thanks for the info but I wasn't actually inquiring about true surround soun. Rather how to achieve virtual surround sound, and whether a DAC which claims to produce a 7.1 virtual surround sound signal would be able to provide surround sound with only stereo headphones, or if they both need that as an inbuilt feature.

Hi guys, So I have been using my Sennheiser Game One headset for a fair few years now, and it is starting to fall apart, so it is time for an upgrade. I mostly use my PC for gaming and watching movies, and I'm pretty keen on getting a decent upgrade as well as a replacement. I also particularly want virtual 7.1 surround sound. I have done a bit of research and am tossing up the idea of getting a DAC. One thing I am particularly unsure about is how virtual surround sound works. If the headset has virtual 7.1 surround sound, will it benefit from a DAC which also does? Also, if a DAC provides surround sound, is it necessary for the headphones to support it, or is it effectively that same outcome. If so, which would hypothetically be better. For example, I am considering the SoundblasterX G6 DAC and the HyperX Cloud Revolver. However, I don't know whether the headphones are good enough to benefit from the DAC, and similarly, the cloud revolver does not feature surround sound, but would the DAC provide that to them anyway, or would I need the Cloud Revolver S, and to connect them to the DAC, to achieve the surround sound. Also, in the case that the headphones don't benefit from the DAC, would it then just be better to buy just a more feature rich headsset? Cheers, Liam

Hi there, This is the first PC I have built by myself, and everything is working great but I can't get the CPU fan header to power my fans. I have a ROG STRIX B450-F with a Ryzen 3600. The motherboard has several fan headers (CPU_Fan, CPU_Opt, CHA_Fan1,2,3, and AIO_Pump). I have 6 fans in total. The three with the case (corsair LL120), I have connected to the chassis fans headers, and am using them for my AIO radiator (coolermaster Ml360r). The three fans that came with the radiator I am using as chassis fans. The radiator came with a fan splitter, so first I had the three of them connected all to the CPU_Fan header, but they wouldn't spin and on boot the motherboard was detecting a CPU fan error and refusing to boot. I then tried various swaps and plugging different fans into different headers etc. Results were that: the coolermaster (CM) fans all worked fine when plugged in individually or with the splitter into the CHA_FAN1 header. The CM fans would not work when plugged individually into the CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT headers. The LL120 fans work fine when plugged individually into the CPU_FAN header. Also, when the CM fans were plugged into the CPU_FAN header either individually or with the splitter, when powering the PC on or off, the fans that were connected would all jerk a little bit. This leads me to believe that there is some issue with the CM fans with the CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT headers, but I cant for the life of me figure out why that would be the case. Cheers, Liam