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Surprising uses for motherboard USB headers beyond front panel I/O

Have you ever looked at the internal USB headers on your motherboard and wondered what you can connect to them? These headers come in a few flavors. We have the older USB 2.0 headers, slightly newer ...
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4 high-polling peripherals that are likely to fail on front-panel USB

They might feel more convenient, but the USB ports on your case's front I/O are almost always inferior to your motherboard's ports. It's not even about potentially lower bandwidth, but rather the ...
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Front Panel (Antec Case + Intel Mobo)

I'm trying to connect the front panel USB and Firewire connectors on my Antec Performance Plus case to my Intel 865PERL mobo. However, as you can (hopefully) see by my ASCII diagrams the labels on the ...
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Recommend a front panel USB/Firewire connector

I'm looking to keep my pristine arrangement of cables behind my PC/desk (I'm anal-retentive like that) and the two firewire and three USB cables are not helping.<BR><BR>So I'm looking for a front ...