CD Rom cable

[corpse]

You know inside the case where there is a cable from the cdrom to a plugin on the motherboard. What, exactly does thsi cable do?

Is it just for direct sound from that cdrom?

[Tormentius]

Yes, it allows sound to be output directly to your soundcard.

[corpse]

And what is the advantage to that?

[Tormentius]

You can playback a CD without using CPU cycles since it outputs directly to the soundcard.

[corpse]

Thanks yoiu