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What exactly do I search for this?

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The second one is a dual modem card, old crap, throw it away.

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Thats a land line cable link i think, it might be for dial up connection to the interwebz

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That would be a game port.  For ye old joystick.  Sound card makers used to throw those in as extra features on sound cards.

 

EDIT: also useful for ye old midi keyboards.  How could I forget.

 

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/GameportPCMidi_pinout.shtml

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Edit, I figured out what they were, new pic whats this?

 

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Chance's are I'd need to replace it with something similar since it's IDE.

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"Midi in, midi out" - its soo 2000...

 

Thats a sb audigy 2 front panel...

 

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Do they make a modern version of this?

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It's a sound card. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2.

I need the front panel I think.

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Why is everyone on about completely different things?

 

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That card is deeeeead. Noone make front panel soundcard no more. Now you connect to some standalone stuff.

 

That's just a front panel breakout box with some extra conectors. Creative still makes these:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102040

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Creative still makes these:

Well propably only them now. Its not much different than front panel in PC cases nowaday. When people dont use cd/dvd anymore why use front panel audio mounted in 5.25 bays if you have same thing build into the case.

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Well propably only them now. Its not much different than front panel in PC cases nowaday. When people dont use cd/dvd anymore why use front panel audio mounted in 5.25 bays if you have same thing build into the case.

It's not always built into the case. For instance, if you need RCA audio jacks, no case has those.

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It's not always built into the case. For instance, if you need RCA audio jacks, no case has those.

Well you have to be very much into audio sound then. Modern based use onboard audio/PCI/USB one without front panel. Ive got mine USB one from Steel series 5hv2 and it has 5 years now and still working (the headphone went to hell in 2 years though; bought creative fatality - note to myself never buy anything with creative in logo).

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Well you have to be very much into audio sound then. Modern based use onboard audio/PCI/USB one without front panel. Ive got mine USB one from Steel series 5hv2 and it has 5 years now and still working (the headphone went to hell in 2 years though; bought creative fatality - note to myself never buy anything with creative in logo).

 

Really?  I never had a bad experience with creative. I would have loved an Audigy 2 back in the day but I ended up getting the live 5.1. I never regretted it.

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Really?  I never had a bad experience with creative. I would have loved an Audigy 2 back in the day but I ended up getting the live 5.1. I never regretted it.

Since waaaay back had problems with them - starting with soundcard to this [...] headset signed by "Fatal1ty"...

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He has a mini Midi to regular midi.  He says his devices use midi and that guitar center has a regular midi in/out device that is USB power that he can buy.  So that fixes that for me!!!

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He has a mini Midi to regular midi.  He says his devices use midi and that guitar center has a regular midi in/out device that is USB power that he can buy.  So that fixes that for me!!!

 

So, a recording interface like we were suggesting in that other thread?  :lol:

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