[nicholars]

If you connect the internal audio connector on a motherboard to the front audio jack on your case, if the motherboard has a built in amplifier on the rear line out will this work through the front audio jack as well (at the front of the PC case connected by motherboard header)? Or will the headphone amp only work through the back panel line out connection? Also does using the front jack on the PC case for headphones degrade the quality at all? I am talking about a brand new high end Asus / Gigabyte motherboard with good onboard sound / shielding etc. I need to run my stereo amp from the rear 3.5mm line out via 3.5mm > RCA and I would need the front audio jack on the case to run my headphones with the headphone amp, or is the front audio jack not amplified like the rear? Motherboards I am look at are Gigabyte Z97x gaming 5 and Asus Z97-a.