Okay, I want to connect my Xbox 360 to my PC monitor to free up my HDTV so I can watch television and play games at the same time. Therefore, I decided to order an HDMI to DVI cable to connect the two together. Afterwards, however, I realized that that the audio isn't going to be transfered to my monitor so how do I solve that?

One possibility is to get the audio dongle included in the 360's HDMI pack.

My understanding is that HDMI carries the audio with it, but if you're hooking it to a monitor, that'll be lost.

The dongle plugs into the regular 360 video port and has either RCA or optical audio outs.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-HDMI-AV-Cable/dp/B000UODATY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1239130162&sr=1-1

Couldn't find an audio dongle-only package, but perhaps ebay?

here is a nice article on how to bypass the problem without paying more money.

http://www.slashgear.com/hack-use-a-cheap-hdmi-cable-on-your-xbox-360-premium-037755/

Microsoft loves money, your money to be exact. When you buy something like their Xbox 360, they want you to use their special proprietary hardware. Take the wireless adapter, you’d think any old adapter would do the trick, unfortunately you have to buy the $100 one from Microsoft. (Or at least that’s what they want you to think, but that’s a story for a different day). Another great example is the $50 HDMI cable with the audio adapter, that’s way too expensive.

If you have one of the newer Xbox 360 Premium consoles, you likely have yourself a nice HDMI port. Unfortunately, due to the design of the A/V cable, you can’t have both an HDMI cable and the A/V cable (which carries your audio) plugged in at the same time. The Microsoft solution is to pay $50 for a special cable.

The hacker solution is to remove the plastic casing around the connector for the A/V cable. This gives you enough room to plug in an el cheap-o HDMI cable. Take that Microsoft!

if you can.. you could just use the VGA cable

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-VGA-HD-AV-Cable/dp/B000B6MLTG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1239131046&sr=1-1

although you could get a MUCH cheaper 3rd party but I dont think there are good reviews on them..

I think that's the perfect solution. Crap, now I got to spend more money. Thanks,