Re: Do they make mobos with an internal USB port?

Metspitzer wrote:

A wireless network card and a sound card are two things that haven't
been replaced on the mobo yet.

Onboard sound has been available on mobos for well over a decade.
Unless there are special high-fidelity, analog, or other functional need
for a sound card, the onboard audio is likely all you need. In fact,
many sounds card are nothing more than what is on the motherboards.

An old SoundBlaster PCI Live 5.1 audio card:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Sound_Blaster_Live%21_5.1_PCI.JPG

An equivalent card today:
http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/29-180-005-07.jpg

The southbridge and codec chips on the mobo can do that, too, and maybe
more. It would be a waste of a card slot to add a sound card that
doesn't do anything better unless you really need a high-end sound card
for some special needs (or to stroke your ego to others in how you
overspent on audio).

Here's one mobo with wifi:
http://usa.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=dFAMIWrZWGgB1GuJ
.

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