Just a small tip for the financially challenged! My teenage son keeps on stealing all the bits and pieces which connect to my sound card (mikes, headphones, speakers) and I was thinking about buying a card which placed all the sokets on the front of the PC, or one of those extension boxes which do much the same thing. (Getting into the back of my PC is a nightmare and infanticide is a crime in this country).

Solved the problem at no cost by rotating the base of the PC by 90 degrees. Now all of the souncard and sundry other ports are easily accessible. It means that the floppy and CD drives are on the far right hand side, but I haven't found that to be a real hassle. For safety's sake I always turn the AC switch off at the wall, so the location of the PC power switch is not an issue.

Regards, John