Good front panel for Audio in / out etc

[Chunkers]

Just bought an Akasa Eclipse and will be fitting a X-fi Music soundcard inside. Really wanted the front panel which comes with the Fatailty or Elite Pro version but couldn't justify the additional expense.

My thought is that maybe I could buy a third party front panel which would give me the inputs I want (see below) and connect to the internal connectors on the X-fi card and possibly the mb (Asus P5B Deluxe)

Requirements :

Black (!) 3.5" or 5.25"
Audio out w. volume (HD Audio if poss but mainly for headphones)
USB ports
Firewire
Card readers would be nice
Not to look too cheap and nasty and match the case
The correct connectors for internal USB / Audio etc pin headers would be nice!

Not really interested in fan controller or alarms but a sexy screen would be OK!

A brief look around really only identifies the Silverstone panel but thought you might know of something better?

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-fp34.htm

The Akasa case also has the blanking plate slot at the front - could I do something clever with that?

Any ideas?

Chnks

[arthurleung]

I used the blanking plate sort for eSATA to my IDE hdds (using a converter) and SATA hdds (either direct connect /w power or my Icybox)

[dancingmatt]

There's an Aerocool AeroPanel II which does most of what you want, it has fan control from a few push buttons as well as the USB, FW, etc. Plus it has a card reader - and here's the clever bit - the card reader can be pulled out from the front bay and taken with you... all you need is a USB lead to connect it to whatever PC you then want to use it with. And when you're done, you just push it back into the bay. It just slides in and out.

Apparently. I haven't bought one yet though!

DM