Creative Sound Blaster Audigy cards... in fact, any Creative Sound Blaster audio cards, use a proprietary I/O panel connector. This ensures that you can't connect your Creative brand audio card to the headphone/microphone ports on the front of your case without forking over a large sum of money for a Creative brand front I/O panel (which doesn't include a power switch or USB ports for your computer, so you're bloody out of luck as far as not leaving non-functional hardware on the front of your PC).
The only Creative Sound Blaster cards that come with a non-proprietary connector for your case's front audio ports are the Platinum Pro series (Audigy2, Audigy4 or X-fi Platinum Pro), which all cost $130+ and include their own front I/O panel anyway.
As it turns out, Performance-PCs is selling a "solution" to this problem. They charge $20 (plus another $7 S&H) for a Creative Labs sound card to case port adapter cable. Which sounded well and good, despite the fact that it cost me more than I paid for my sound card itself ($23), since it would give me a place to plug in my headset, and I really needed that. However, upon receiving the cable and installing it into my case (stupidly, permanently, I might add), it turns out that it wrecks my front-right audio channel; the volume level of my right speaker is decreased more than 95% whenever the cable is attached to my sound card.
Don't buy this!
The only Creative Sound Blaster cards that come with a non-proprietary connector for your case's front audio ports are the Platinum Pro series (Audigy2, Audigy4 or X-fi Platinum Pro), which all cost $130+ and include their own front I/O panel anyway.
As it turns out, Performance-PCs is selling a "solution" to this problem. They charge $20 (plus another $7 S&H) for a Creative Labs sound card to case port adapter cable. Which sounded well and good, despite the fact that it cost me more than I paid for my sound card itself ($23), since it would give me a place to plug in my headset, and I really needed that. However, upon receiving the cable and installing it into my case (stupidly, permanently, I might add), it turns out that it wrecks my front-right audio channel; the volume level of my right speaker is decreased more than 95% whenever the cable is attached to my sound card.
Don't buy this!