The Mad Dog Entertainer 7.1 is a fine example of the breed, sporting a black half-size PCB with a very shiny gold anodizing on the bracket. You won't get this on an integrated solution. The connectors aren't the snazzy gold that you get with the much more expensive sound cards, but at least they follow the Microsoft color coding.

It's quite small, clean layout, and lots of connectors.

Port order, while trivial, is backwards from all the other sound cards we've tested.

That is a lot of connectors.

It does bear a startling resemblence to TB's Catalina.

Notice the jumper block? We have no idea; thought about pinching for mobo, but left in default.

Left-most connector is the standard MS color coded.

The Envy24PT/HT-S.

Envious.

The VT1616 DAC/ADC chip.

Speechless.

 The Wolfson WM8728.

Gone to the dogs.

Edge connectors, CD-in, Aux-in.

Two edge connectors, CD-in and Aux-in.  No internal S/PDIF.