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PSA: Your PC's front I/O is nearly always worse than your motherboard's ports

Motherboard I/O is one of the most important features you should look for when choosing a motherboard. It directly affects the performance of your peripherals, external storage, and high-bandwidth ...
TechCrunch

Handy: modular 2.5" front port thing with USB ports, card readers, drive slot

Now here’s something I could use. My computer’s front looks good, but it only has the optical drive bay at the top and two ports at the bottom — why not make it pretty and functional? Brando USB has ...
Ars Technica

Issue with digital USB audio to dac with front computer ports?

Weird issue... Short version, plugging a USB Schiit modi (DAC) in one of the front USB ports of the computer results in some sort of intermittent noises; like the noise can cut for a fraction of a ...
Ars Technica

Front mount computer ports.

Kinda like FrontX, but not nearly as sophisticated.<P>http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=w-etb-07<P>(got the link from HardOCP) Has 1394 though, so it's ...