Using front panel jacks with a sound card

Using front panel jacks with a sound card I have a relatively modern computer system, in which I have installed an ancient PCI sound card which I recovered from a defunct system. Despite being over ten years old, the sound card is still significantly better than the onboard sound that comes with my motherboard.
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"You should be looking for one that supports front jacks! Seriously, there is no technical term - it is sometimes called the AC-97 connector, but most of the time it is just called ""Audio connectors"" or ""Front panel header"" etc.

However, you may be able to find (In the UK ~£15) a Front panel multi bay, usually they come with a flash memory card reader, additional USB / Firewire sockets and sometimes Audio... I have seen some that simply plug in to the same on board sockets whilst others have a simple blanking plate on the back where you can plug it in to your speaker output... obviously this means everything has to go via your front panel, but I just thought I would say it as a suggestion."