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scott_fx 
well even if you did win the alpine unit, it's an amazing unit and you'll get great sound from it and it's easy to set up to get good sound. you also have more flexibility for tuning.
to go active you'll need to buy another amp for the sub. you then would use one channel per speaker. meaning the dls amp will power the tweeters and the woofers... wire chan one to the left tweet, chan two to the right tweet, chan three to the left mid and chan four to the right mid. the second amp will power the subwoofer. that is roughly what i'm doing and it gives you the best sound and tuning options since you're not bound to what dls has deemed the best x-over settings to sound good in the widest variety of vehicles
as far as the soundcard, you may not need it if your motherboard has coax digital out like the via epia boards
I did win the unit...so it should be on its way shortly...
its a 3 way component system, so the tweets and woofers on the left for "1" and the tweets and woofers on the right for "2" and for "3" and "4" i would power the mids? i have 6 speakers up front...and none in the back for right now. i will probably get some 6x9's in the back, and maybe 1 8 or 10 inch sub...and 2 more tweeters right about where the rearview mirror is on the ceiling pointing directly towards the back.
im so very very confused about this...lol...
btw...i built the computer...its a Core2Duo E6300 paired with an MSI 945GM motherboard. so i do need the sounds card...and all i need to do after the H701 is installed and hooked up to the speakers is take the Optical Out from the sound card and put it in the H701 and then tune it, right?