Front Breakout box?

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Hiya,

Looking into getting a soundcard, but would need one that comes with one of those handy front 5.25" bay breakout boxes, so I don't have to get intimate with my PC every time I need to switch cables.

Simple question is, what ones have them?

I can see the X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition quite clearly has one, but I'm not enough of an audiophile to want to spend that cash on a sound card.

Suggestions?

 

[El_Watcher]

There is a new range of XFi cards being released soon, so not sure which ones have to front panel. The XFi Platinum had one which was cheaper than the Fatality (didn't have X-RAM). Think I remember an HDA sound card had a front panel box as well but can't remember which.

 

[Phil99]

The new X-Fi gamer card has Intel HD compatible front panel connectors on the card, so you could get that + a cheap front panel thing?

Alternatively, you could buy some cable extenders and run them from the back of your pc for the cheapest solution?