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<blockquote data-quote="mascot" data-source="post: 245881" data-attributes="member: 60586"><p>I've decided to go with the nvidia MCP78 based board. 780g will NEVER support anything but 2 channel audio through HDMI, while the MCP78 with geforce 8200 has support for truehd and dts-hd ma etc through HDMI in 7.1 channels. Also the north bridge on the Gigabyte GA-MA78MG-S2H is reported to be very, very hot according to alot of people, atleast on the current a12 builds (might be fixed on a13 builds but those are not around yet.)</p><p></p><p>80+ degrees celcius in idle and almost 90 degrees reported on full load for a few hours. Not to my liking.</p><p></p><p>I won't be using the HDMI because I'm going to connect the analogue ports straight to a 7-channel amp and powerered subwoofer but until I get my new poweramp (sold the old 5 channel one recently) I need some audio through tv speakers.</p><p></p><p>The hardware acceleration with geforce 8200 are qual to the hd3200 in 780g.</p><p></p><p>The Gigabyte board has firewire and eSata wich is great but no HDMI audio and hot north bridge + some problems with driver according to some people does enough to make me pick the Asus M3N78-HDMI fpr my HTPC instead.</p><p></p><p>It lacks firewire and eSata but has the advantage of heat reduced and full hd audio through HDMI.. I will need it temporarily until I get the new poweramp and you never know what might be the case in the future, I might get a reciever to decode truehd etc instead. I need to connect my Nindendo wii somewhere to get the audio so a reciever with decoders for the new sound formats might still be the case.</p><p></p><p>Good news is that Power DVD 8.0 is out officially in the end of this month with no audio downsampling ie full hd audio delivery through HDMI aswell as analogue and they also put back the playback from HDD function lacked in the later Power DVD Ultra updates! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I will build next week... dying to get my hands on the rig now!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mascot, post: 245881, member: 60586"] I've decided to go with the nvidia MCP78 based board. 780g will NEVER support anything but 2 channel audio through HDMI, while the MCP78 with geforce 8200 has support for truehd and dts-hd ma etc through HDMI in 7.1 channels. Also the north bridge on the Gigabyte GA-MA78MG-S2H is reported to be very, very hot according to alot of people, atleast on the current a12 builds (might be fixed on a13 builds but those are not around yet.) 80+ degrees celcius in idle and almost 90 degrees reported on full load for a few hours. Not to my liking. I won't be using the HDMI because I'm going to connect the analogue ports straight to a 7-channel amp and powerered subwoofer but until I get my new poweramp (sold the old 5 channel one recently) I need some audio through tv speakers. The hardware acceleration with geforce 8200 are qual to the hd3200 in 780g. The Gigabyte board has firewire and eSata wich is great but no HDMI audio and hot north bridge + some problems with driver according to some people does enough to make me pick the Asus M3N78-HDMI fpr my HTPC instead. It lacks firewire and eSata but has the advantage of heat reduced and full hd audio through HDMI.. I will need it temporarily until I get the new poweramp and you never know what might be the case in the future, I might get a reciever to decode truehd etc instead. I need to connect my Nindendo wii somewhere to get the audio so a reciever with decoders for the new sound formats might still be the case. Good news is that Power DVD 8.0 is out officially in the end of this month with no audio downsampling ie full hd audio delivery through HDMI aswell as analogue and they also put back the playback from HDD function lacked in the later Power DVD Ultra updates! :) I will build next week... dying to get my hands on the rig now!! :) [/QUOTE]
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