Rick;
The breakout box you are talking about is called the Creative "livedrive"
there is a  livedrive I and livedrive II with more inputs/outputs.
The livedrive breakout box fits a 5 1/4 slot and hooks directly to
the soundblaster soundcard via ribbon cable, so it won't work with
other soundcards.
I have a soundblaster live platinum 5.1 that has optical in and out to
interface digitally with
my minidisc or I can record from  a cdplayer that has an optical output.
The soundblaster live platinum is around $180 retail, but you can find them
Oem on pricewatch.com
It also has an infared remote control that can control most functions on the
computer.
More info here: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/platinum5.1/
Here is another site with frontx multimedia ports: http://www.frontx.com/
It plugs into the regular soundcard jacks on the back of your computer.
Lets you customize the configuration to your needs and includes usb ports.

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     | ><>  Larry  Fisk   <><
     |      Fisk Computers
     |      Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Christian" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] Ft. Mount Audio Plug Breakout boards


> I've seen several ads for your standard clones assembled by various OEM
> type integrators that include:

> A breakout box/panel for the various audio connections and controls ie:
line
> in/ out, mic in/out, SPDIF, volume controls etc..
>
> The panel appears to have "CREATIVE" on the front suggesting that this is
> part of some of the Creative Labs audio cards. None of the sights gives
any
> info on the audio card. Creatives sigth makes no mention of it either in
their
> inf on the cards I looked at.
>
> Any one have any ideas on which of the Creative cards include this little
> gem or sources of OEM panels similar to this item. This would be a great
> help to my new PC.

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