use dual core CPU's (no games support them yet). Vista is here to stay, you can stay with XP if you want to but Vista will eventually have the bugs worked out and when the games start supporting DX10 the early adopters will be ready to rock. :) I'm building...

Surround sound not working anymore. Hi all, I have been having a problem with my sound set up as of late. I had bought the Creative Audigy Platinum EX, and the Inspire 5300 speakers. For a month they all worked fine, in games, mp3's etc. Now the past week only...

to the three 3.5mm jacks and are then split into 6 RCA plugs? Then the subwoofer/amp for computer surround must have 6 seperate inputs? One for each channel? If this is the case then the home theater surround sound speaker system I bought WILL NOT work with...

you'd want to do is get is a good set of speakers, this is what you hear and if you can afford it, a new surround sound receiver as well as a sub. You could get a decent Onkyo surround sound receiver starting at about $300 with an optical in and sub out, it...

man oh man i love these bad boys. Although at first it feels as if the rear and center speakers sound horrible, after making the adjustments and playing the game for a while it really is a nice sound. The speakers still have little base in the back yet like...

in Vista, and I get surround sound in other apps. Hi,I have a somewhat different problem. The sound works great but if i die the sound dissapears. I don't know what to do,I searched for fixes but they don't work. I have XP with SP3 and have the 1.4 patch...

up mix the audio to 5.1 is the sound playing out of the rear speakers? in some games you need to go into the sound settings and change it for a 5.1 setup not all games support 5.1 surround sound for most surround sound setups i would recommend a sound card...

need help getting the best sound card. I want the best 7.1 sound card to play surround sound games on my pc. I was thinking of getting the creative sound blaster audigy 2 zs. But what about the Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 and Digifire 7.1? Are those better...