and although the splitter is not the preffered route to go i know, it should be worth it in the grand scheme of things for the increase in sound quality It defintely is a damn good card though and is worth the price especially if you can get a good deal on one. maybe with the release of the audigy 5 titanium they will finally figure that out. You would think audigy would be smart enough to consider that anyone who is going to install one of their cards would be disabling on board sound, so they would make a connector for front panel stuff. I had it set up with a splitter before when I had an sblive value and I guess I could go back to that route, but ideally i'd like to use all my front panel stuff :) i really wish the audigy 2 would have connectors for this that is a bummer about your speakers, thats the most obvious solution so i defintely figured that must have been the case that there was not a headphone jack, but since i personally tend to more often than not overlook the obvious (75% of the times when i post LOL) i figured it was worth a shot.major bummer though bummer eh? plus I have a headset so having the speaker/mic output right there at the front of my case is really nice. Unfortunately my 4.1 speakers don't have a headphone jack on any of the speakers. It definately shows the pinout assignment for the AD_EXT row, but none of them look familiar so I don't think my idea of using some of them for the front panel audio cable will work :(

Nice link DL! I didn't find that one at all. Just buy an audidy plantinum, or you can get a headphone extender from radio shack. but if you have the kind with seperate connectors for each of the headphone/mic/ and so on, then you won't be able to use it. Although, there are some front panels that will run off a USB and Firewire connect. So in conclusion, I dont think you can plug a Computer-Case front panel into the audiy, and if you disable the onboard sound, then you will most likely not get sound from your motherboard. Then if you look on the left, you will see all the connectors, from top to bottom: they are not present cause this isn't a platinum Green Tint - that is the Platinum Front panel and platinum jostick plug-ins. Red Tint - that is your Firewire connection where you can plug a frontpanel firewire/ or even back bay slot firewire thing,-whatever into. Here is a picture of the audigy 2 soundcard.īlue Tint - all the audio ins, like for the CD, and other auxillary devices. Also, Im not sure about being able to plug front panel headpone/mic jacks into an Audigy 2. If you disable your onboard sound, which you would want to do in the motherboard BIOS, then you will not get any sound from the motherboard.

Front audio ports not working