You'll have to excuse me. I'm very noobish. I'll going to be building my very first PC in a few weeks. I've never had a 6-channel audio system before. In fact, I've never had anything more than the 2.1 setup that I currently have.
I was under the impression that a 6-channel audio setup would require 6 different ports and that each port would have a different speaker wire plugged into it or something. I saw an Audigy card that appeared to have 5 ports on the back of it and I just sort of assumed that each port was for a different channel.
So basically, I'm just wondering what exactly plugs into what? With my current 2.1 setup, I have a wire running from the green port on the back of my tower to the subwoofer. Both of the satellite speakers are plugged into the subwoofer. Now, if I were to get a 6.1 setup, would it just be the same sort of thing, but with 6 satellite speakers plugged into a subwoofer? So even though I have 6 channels of audio, I only have one wire coming out of my computer? 6 channels of audio all come down the same wire? Again, I have very little experience with PC audio, so you'll have to forgive me here.