Shoutbox

Hi All

My PCs speakers have just given up, so am looking into purchaseing new ones. I've been looking online and am seeing many 2.1 speaker systems. I've got a standard sound card on a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop, which is only a stereo card.

So, my question is...Is my understanding current that there'd be no point in buying 2.1 channel speakers as the sound card is only a 2 channel one? Or, will the speakers connect be able to work fully (including the sub-woofer) with a 2.0 channel card?

Also: My current speakers connect via a normal speaker port in the PC, and I see that quite a few speakers connect via USB. Would it be OK to be USB connecting speakers and just fit them into a USB port?

I'm hoping to buy something over the weekend (or next week). Thanks in advance

~Salem