Has anyone hooked an xbox 360 up to a computer monitor and sound system?

tepidpond · 1 year

HDMI makes it easy. You need a DVI->HDMI cord that matches your monitor. Unless your monitor is just exactly bitchin' enough, you also need an audio line. The original cord should work, but you need an RCA->headphone jack adapter for most computer sound systems.

If you're not setup with HDMI hardware, seanspen0 has a link for the right sort of cable that will run with old-school monitors.

seanspen0 · 1 year

If you don't have a monitor with HDMI then you will need one of these cables to use VGA. Then the audio will depend on the speaker setup

Rad1030 · 1 year

You need a computer monitor with hdmi inputs and a speaker system.

[deleted] · 1 year

If all you have for inputs on your monitor is VGA/DVI, then your only choice would be to use a 360 VGA cable and output the audio via the RCA red/white left/right audio cables into your sound system.

Just make sure you've got some extra RCA audio couplers and cables. The audio outputs on the 360 VGA cable are very short and unless your audio inputs are right next to your VGA input on your monitor (like, 4-6 inches away at most), you'll need an additional length of red/white RCA audio cable and an RCA coupler.

lagasan · 1 year

I've often hooked my xbox up to the second input on my monitor, and then just run the sound into the line in on my PC. I can switch between xbox and pc just by pressing the input button on my monitor that way, works pretty well.

bobtentpeg · 1 year

Yes, with the HDMI cord to my HPLP2475W

TrollierThanThou · 1 year

yeah. all you need to do is buy a vga cable(1st party brand) and an optical cable to connect your sound system. This is the easiest way to do it. There are other ways too but this is the most cost effective.

[deleted] · 1 year

Yep, did it with an HDMI to DVI adapter for video and RCA to 3.5mm adapter for audio.

theCHENRY · 1 year

i've tried, the monitor and xbox don't seem to cooperate.

reahidru · 1 year

Instead of using a monitor as a TV I use a TV as a monitor. Works great.

maccathesaint · 1 year

dunno why everyone is making this sound so hard with special cables etc.

i have a 6 year old 22" HP HD monitor, an hdmi cable & my xbox. and run my xbox through my speaker system, works fine & didn't need anything i didn't already have.

and then i bought a 40" HD tv,so even better,lol

whiskeytango · 1 year

All you really need, as far as the computer monitor goes, is a computer monitor with HDMI input. Like mine.

Now, you can be tricky and hook it up to a receiver so you can set up surround sound.. or you can be a cheap fuck like me and get a monitor that has speakers built in and a headphone jack. Then... you plug a decent set up speakers into the headphone jack of your monitor and voila.

suparabbit · 1 year

i use the vga cable because i have one of the arcade versions without the hdmi port

CoderKayge · 1 year

If you have a newer HDMI xbox 360, you will need one of these things:

A monitor with HDMI input.
An HDMI to DVI adapter if your monitor only allows DVI.
The VGA connector that Seanspen0 posted.

Word of warning with the VGA hookup, when I used that hookup it only allowed 720p as the max resolution. The video was still good with the VGA hookup at 720p, but when I finally upgraded to 1080 I won't go back.

As for the sound system: The VGA adapter only allows a single audio jack (headphone plug). Most surround sound systems allow for that hookup, but I don't know how good the surround sound actually works though. Aside from that, I think the usual audio jacks will work with most surround sound systems.

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