Speakers

[ekundo]

i want to get some new speakers for my pc. my graphics card has av out (red and white things yeah?) and the digital out. would something like this or this a) work and b) be better than standard computer speakers?

any recoomendations? iv got about £80 to spare atm

[Alex]

Your graphics card has sound outputs? Are you sure? Also, if it only has one red and one white, you ain't gonna be able to get sorround sound out of them, only stereo. What sort of digital output are we talking about? None of the systems you've specced had a decoder, so digital sound out wouldn't work for sorround sound either, unless you get something with a decoder in it.

EDIT: If you're interested, I may have a pair of these for sale:

http://www.videologic.com/Products/P...PageType=Intro

Which retailed for £140, and I may sell them for £80ish, not sure yet, as I need to check if they are still working when I replace the fuse in there.

[ekundo]

as you can tell, i dont know what im doing, just winging it.

http://www.minidisc.org/images/creat...blastermp3.jpg

s'what it looks like. so waht do i need? i want a set of decent, pref 5.1, speakers for 50-80 £.

[Howard]

Those LGs you posted a link to will work fine if you link them to the optical output.

[ekundo]

know where to get a similar set but slightly cheaper? and not from argos

[Alex]

What sound card is that you've got there? It may be worth getting a 5.1 card for about £30 which will do the decoding, and then get a set of 5.1 speakers for about £50ish, assuming this is for your PC...

Something like this maybe:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...40&GroupID=283

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...89&GroupID=284

Just as an alternate idea!

[ekundo]

"It only does 5.1 if you a) have an optical IN port on your speakers, and b) your speakers do dolby 5.1 decoding. If you do NOT have optical IN on your card, this device is only good for 2.1."

iv got a shuttle so the extrenal-ness of the soundcard is v.usefull.

its a creative soundblaster mp3+, i could probably go internal now. depends if its worth it over just getting speakers with an optical in/decoder