From Silent Q Blog
She wanted to reuse her old chassis, rather than buy a new one. It was a “legacy” chassis, one which doesn’t have any external expansion ports accessible from the front. If you look at some of the new cases available, they have all sorts of front-accessible ports. At this point, she had already spent a small fortune on the required components, why drop another Bennie (or more) on something that will add no performance, and little to no functionality?
In any event, the new motherboard has 10 USB ports - four directly on back panel of the motherboard, and six are just supplied as headers on the board. The manufacturer gave us one 2-port real panel connector, but she still wanted to utilize the extra USB ports, without using a hub. Her MP3 player, PDA, cameras, and a bunch of other stuff are all USB devices, and it would be really nice to have easy access to the cables. Detail...
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