No headphone out?

HD Audio has jack sensing, the AC97 does not.

Just checked and I couldn't find these cables anywhere on the motherboard... The only cables coming from the front of the case are the ones for the buttons and the hard disc access light. The front panel has just holes where the USB and 3.5mm jacks should be so I'm assuming they're not in the case anymore. I took a few pictures in case you'd like to take a look.

OK, then the cables and jacks are no longer there.

That leaves the Green speaker jack on the rear. The motherboard, from your pictures does no appear to have a slot for another sound card. If the Green speaker jack's volume is not loud enough, you have two options - a USB headset or a small "headset amplifier" like is used in recording systems.

Here is an inexpensive headphone amp. The Behringer allows 4 headsets but you can use just one. Can't beat the price.
https://www.amazon.com/Behringer-HA4...nger+micro+amp

fireberd said:

OK, then the cables and jacks are no longer there.

That leaves the Green speaker jack on the rear. The motherboard, from your pictures does no appear to have a slot for another sound card. If the Green speaker jack's volume is not loud enough, you have two options - a USB headset or a small "headset amplifier" like is used in recording systems.

Here is an inexpensive headphone amp. The Behringer allows 4 headsets but you can use just one. Can't beat the price.
https://www.amazon.com/Behringer-HA4...nger+micro+amp

Is there any sort of quality loss by using a cheap amplifier? Or a USB converter?

Edit: I think my motherboard does have a slot for another sound card since it has a second PCI Express port. Would something like the SoundBlaster Audigy FX work?

essenbe said:

I have a USB headset and I notice no difference in quality. However, I am nowhere close to an audiophile, so take it for what it's worth.

If you do have another pcie slot, a sound card would work, but to use the front panel audio jacks you still need the wire from the FP connections to plug into the card.

In CountMike's picture the yellow circle shows where the FP audio connector should plug into the board. That wire may be in the bundle of wires coming from the FP connections. It is a logical assumption if the case has FP audio connections, it should also have the necessary wires to connect it. Look at the back of the FP connections and trace the wire from the audio jacks and find the other end of it.

That's the problem, the jacks are nowhere to be found in the case. As I said, there are holes where they should be in the front panel.

CountMike said:

Than you need an adapter like I linked to, fits in a drive bay.

Yeah I'll see. I'll either get one of these or a sound card.