Ok, so I've got one of those Triton 5.1 headphone sets, but I hate getting down on my hands and knees to change out the plugs for the headphones and the speakers that I use as well. I would like to find a front side 5.1 jack set that would fit in one of the 5.25" bays, and I don't want to have to buy a whole 'nother sound card to do it. I already passed up the X-Fi Titanium "Fatal1ty" in favour of the Titanium HD, because swappable op-amps were more appealing to me than the endorsement of an old "professional gamer". How hold is that guy anyway? And how much of a kickback did he get from those cards? Not much, I'll bet, since it's Creative.

Doesn't the Titanium card have the connectors to link to a front panel? Might find out if it does as Creative sell the front panels alone. Other than that there are a few fan contollers that have I/O including jacks like this one

Wow, that thing's got everything but a floppy drive. Unfortunately I already have a multi-card reader + floppy drive. I wanted one with a floppy drive specifically because I wanted to install the CatWeasel.

The only Titanium card that comes with a front side panel addition is the "Fatal1ty Champion" card.

Oh your card is a newer one than the standard. I checked it on the Creative store and it does indeed have the connector for a front panel but it looks like Creative don't sell it yet. It's not the same connector seen on the X-Fi Titanium. I have the Champion series myself and the cards are identical it's just the front panel you pay extra for.

Which set of Tritton 5.1 are they? I used to have a pair of the AX360s (if I remember correctly) and the audio box had to options of using a Digital Optical cable which is what I ended up using. I got a simple digital optical cable and left it pluged into the computer and used the WIndows Sounds setting to change where it sent the signal (analog or digital optical). What other ports are available on your Tritton audio box, or did you not get one? This might be the easy way to solve your problem.
If your confused about what I mean about audio box, it's the box in the center of the headphones in this picture (this is a pair of AXPro's btw):
http://www.topreviewshop.com/graphics/Tritton%20AX%20Pro%20Headset%20with%20Box.JPG

No, it's an older pair of AX51. The green ones, with the round 'phones, not the square-ish ones.

Not a pretty idea, but you could always go to Radio Shack and buy a few of those short 1/8 inch extender cables to reach around to the front.

Ugly? Yes.

But cheap and fast :-)

Maybe. And doesn't somebody make external 5.1 thingies?

The closest I can find is called a FrontX Panel. It looks like a modular drive bay panel with options for 1/8" stereo connectors. Their URL: http://frontx.com/index.html

I tried looking for the same thing awhile back when I had a 5.1 Analog Headset. Unfortunately, I didn't really have any luck back then. I'll digress by saying that I now have a set of cans from Audio Technica that seem to do just as well at giving me an idea of where things are happening in the game. And if they don't, at least they're a million times more comfortable, so I don't really care.

Nonetheless, if you give the FrontX a try, I'd be interested in knowing how well it works out.

It looks like that the way these FrontX panels work is simply by redirecting the existing audio ports, basically by using the extension cables that HoneyBakedHam mentioned. What I need is a whole new set of ports, so that I can leave my speakers plugged in the back, and plug my headphones in front, and use my card's software to switch between output devices according to my whim.

Well, now, actually... Radio Shack sells these little 4 or 6 inch long 1/8 inch stereo splitter cables, so you can grab three of those to use with the frontX panel... and all you need to do is switch off the headphones or turn down the speakers or like, you know, however that works.

I think I might know too much about what Radio Shack sells.

One can never know too much about Radio Shack. Best Buy and CompUSA are different stories.

If you split the signal, you'll lose voltage on both outputs. May make the audio a bit quiet.

If your audio card doesn't have headers directly on the card, it sounds like you might need to use three of the headphones ports. There's a jack and a plug to the back of the computer on each of them and a jack on the panel. It appears to me that if the panel is being used, the jack on back shuts off, otherwise output is directed to the back jack for speaker output.

http://frontx.com/cpx090.html