I'm getting ready to build a new rig using the Intel DX38BT mobo. My current build uses the Intel 925 board. When I bought the 925 three years ago, I got the retail box that came w/a front-panel "breakout" box. (I don't know what actual name to call it, and I'm sure "breakout" box is wrong; it's that front-panel 3 1/2" connection combiner that has 2 USB ports, 1 Firewire port, and audio connections. Whatever it's really called, please correct me before I kill... umm, err again.))
The DX38BT retail box apparently doesn't come w/a breakout box. I've grown very fond of this component. As you probably know, the wire connections on it connect directly to pins on the 925's mobo--i.e. no going out the backplane and connecting to the rear ports, like the Sunbeam Super Panel I thought I might originally use, until I found out that it indeed uses this very approach: connecting thru the rear to the rear ports.
What I would like to do is take the breakout box out of my current build and use it w/the new build, on the DX38BT mobo. My question:
Does the DX38BT have the same, direct-on-motherboard pins to connect the breakout box ports to, just like 925 does?
If you're wondering why I don't just use the USB/Firewire/audio ports built into my case, here's why: I'm using the Lian-li PC V2000Bplus for my new build (and I used the same Lian-li case for my current build, the original version w/out the "plus"). Those port connectors are at the very bottom front of the case. If I placed this case up on my desk, using the built-in ports would be no problem. But this case is such a behemoth, I can't imagine putting it on my desk, even if I had the room (which I don't). Currently the case resides under my desk, just to the right of my right foot. I can guarantee that the very first time I would plug something into the case port, within seconds I would forget it was there and move my big right foot and snap it clean off. I think it's a horrible place to put the ports, on an otherwise beautiful case (tho some would disagree about the "horrible placement" comment). So on my current build, the "breakout" box is installed in the very top optical bay, a much safer place for it to be.
So anyway: can I go ahead and cannibalize the breakout box from my 925 build, and use it on the new DX38BT, w/the full expectation that I will find all the pin connections I need, directly on the motherboard?
The DX38BT retail box apparently doesn't come w/a breakout box. I've grown very fond of this component. As you probably know, the wire connections on it connect directly to pins on the 925's mobo--i.e. no going out the backplane and connecting to the rear ports, like the Sunbeam Super Panel I thought I might originally use, until I found out that it indeed uses this very approach: connecting thru the rear to the rear ports.
What I would like to do is take the breakout box out of my current build and use it w/the new build, on the DX38BT mobo. My question:
Does the DX38BT have the same, direct-on-motherboard pins to connect the breakout box ports to, just like 925 does?
If you're wondering why I don't just use the USB/Firewire/audio ports built into my case, here's why: I'm using the Lian-li PC V2000Bplus for my new build (and I used the same Lian-li case for my current build, the original version w/out the "plus"). Those port connectors are at the very bottom front of the case. If I placed this case up on my desk, using the built-in ports would be no problem. But this case is such a behemoth, I can't imagine putting it on my desk, even if I had the room (which I don't). Currently the case resides under my desk, just to the right of my right foot. I can guarantee that the very first time I would plug something into the case port, within seconds I would forget it was there and move my big right foot and snap it clean off. I think it's a horrible place to put the ports, on an otherwise beautiful case (tho some would disagree about the "horrible placement" comment). So on my current build, the "breakout" box is installed in the very top optical bay, a much safer place for it to be.
So anyway: can I go ahead and cannibalize the breakout box from my 925 build, and use it on the new DX38BT, w/the full expectation that I will find all the pin connections I need, directly on the motherboard?
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