Multiple stereo outputs from MoBo

[shanepg]

Guys,

I just bought myself a nice new separates hifi system that I have wired up to the backpanel of my PC with a 3.5mm jack to listen to music - it sounds great. However, sometimes I will want to continue to use my little creative desktop speakers - i.e. when the Mrs is watching TV and I'm gaming.

What is the easiest way to wire this up so that I don't have to mess about at the back of the computer to move the wires over?

I have 6 ports on the internal sound card of this MoBo, is there a nice piece of software that can persuade the board to play out of the main 'line out' and (e.g.) the side speaker output as simple stereo? I can then just switch the amp input on the stereo or turn down the creatives when I don't want to listen to them.

Recommendations please...

 

[shanepg]

Yea that was my first plan...
For some reason the front port doesn't seem to work, the front USBs work, so I have something configured wrong but I can't figure out what. I have checked the cabling to the MoBo and the Bios settings, will check for driver updates tmw.
Routing the creatives to the back might be neater.
I am never going to use 5.1 surround sound etc from the computer so figured I might be able to utilise the back ports for something.

 

[shanepg]

I've managed to get the front jack working and have configured the default devices correctly in the control panel and as 3dcandy said it switches over automatically. BUT as marsman says I now need a sound card as the quality is clearly inferior to CD even with my untrained ears! I'll cruise the forum and look for suggestions...
Thanks guys