Now i've gone for a 5.1 system I have my old 2.1 speakers "spare" - i've checked and they don't really sell on eBay (about £3 profit - YAY!) so I might as well keep them, but what for? I was thinking that I could use it on my desk and have it hooked up to my PC as a second output so I could use both sets of speakers at once, but this seemed like a pretty stupid idea. Seems a bit of a waste of a fairly good-sounding set of speakers though, especially with a subwoofer...

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Second thing - Now i've gone for a 5.1 system I have my old 2.1 speakers "spare" - i've checked and they don't really sell on eBay (about £3 profit - YAY!) so I might as well keep them, but what for? I was thinking that I could use it on my desk and have it hooked up to my PC as a second output so I could use both sets of speakers at once, but this seemed like a pretty stupid idea. Seems a bit of a waste of a fairly good-sounding set of speakers though, especially with a subwoofer...

I don't know what kind of sound card you have, but maybe you could use them as side speakers and create a 7.1 sound system? I don't know what kind of jacks your 2.1 sounds system has, but that's one possibility...

I'm using an X-Fi XtremeMusic if that helps...



I've also fixed the first Mic issue now.

Damn, that one doesn't have enough jacks for a 7.1 system then.

I'm sure that it supports 7.1 - tbh I doubt a card that retails at £50 ($100) wouldn't run a 71 setup.

Go to Google!

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I'm sure that it supports 7.1 - tbh I doubt a card that retails at £50 ($100) wouldn't run a 71 setup.

Go to Google!

It's not that that's the problem - it's the fact that you physically don't have enough jacks for a microphone AND a 7.1 setup...

...you need something like this!

I got my X-Fi for £35. If you'll find me a Xonar for that price, or sell me yours i'll be fine :P

EDIT - http://www.soundblaster.com/pr ... p;product=14066&nav=1

That suggests that it is 7.1...

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I got my X-Fi for £35. If you'll find me a Xonar for that price, or sell me yours i'll be fine :P

Lol - sorry - I didn't mean to come across as an ass - I was just trying to point out that you simply needed something with more jacks. If you're interested - there are cheaper X-Fi cards that have more than 4 jacks. This one's $65.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ ... aspx?Item=N82E16829102017

The XtremeAudio sucks balls - it doesn't really qualify as an X-Fi at all as it is more similar to an Audigy than an X-Fi.

Creative say my card will do 7.1, though...

It will, but you just won't have a slot for a mic. If you want to sacrifice that then go for it! Maybe, you could just hook the mic up to the case's mic-in jack to free up the jack you need on the actual card?

No Mic? No problem. I have onboard sound, and as my mic cost me less than a £1 then tbh I doubt going from an X-Fi to onboard will kill the quality.

Well, I didn't mean to necessarily use the onboard sound. Although that would work just as well. On some cards the case jacks actually connect to that, so it's still good quality sound. Either way though, do that - and then you'll have enough room for the extra jack and you've got yourself a 7.1 system! Dunno how well it would work seeing as the speakers would be different - but it's worth a shot?