Card Readers / Multimedia panels for new build

SFChief

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Am looking for a do it all front panel for a custom build and am considering the following?:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15209
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12434
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12446

Anyone have these and has anyone used DealExtreme before? I wanted to ask them some product questions, but I can't seem to find a way to e-mail them. Also concerned about shipping from China taking a while. I looked on Newegg, but everything that looked good (feature wise) got poor reviews.

If anyone knows (or has suggestions on alternatives), I was trying to find out the following:

First question: What is the difference between the first 2 products (skus 15209 and 12434)? They look exactly the same in the pictures?

Second question (for all three products): Do these support SDHC and SATA II up to 300MB/s?

Must have options that I'm looking for are Compact Flash, SDHC, headphone jack, firewire and no more than 2 USB 2.0 (don't have the headers available for more on the MB). All with internal MB connections. The other options are nice to have and I'm sure the SATA will come in handy down the road. Not really sure what the difference is between eSATA and SATA either? I thought "e" was just for external?

Thanks in advance!

 

SFChief

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Doesn't anyone use card readers?

I know it's not as sexy as CPUs and such, but it seems that there is a lot more crap to sort through in this area.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. DealExtreme buyers out there?