AN-M2HD sound over HDMI

crazyDAJT

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I'm looking at getting a ABIT AN-M2HD to plug into my 42" HD tv.

now i know it will send the sound over the HDMI connection, but onbord sound is generally rubbish.

if i wanted to get another sound card, would it just be a matter of plugging its output of this card into the internal audio connector (lableled CD1 "This connector connects to the audio output of internal CD-ROM drive or add-on card")

or is there no point, as the audio would be ok/HD stuff is different story completely and i shouldn't bother with a add on sound card.
 
I've found the on-board sound to be okay for my needs, but that only goes to a 2.1 setup, depends how good your speakers are I suppose?
 
Furton said:
I've found the on-board sound to be okay for my needs, but that only goes to a 2.1 setup, depends how good your speakers are I suppose?
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at first I'm just going to plug it into the TV, so wont be getting a add on sound card, but I might invest in a 5.1 or 7.1 system in the future. so i want to know if i can use a add in soundcard

how do you fined the picture quality and playback of HD stuff?? i would like to get away without using a GFX card as im using a micro ATX case i want room to add cards
 
I'm using an Athlon BE-2400 (2.3Ghz at 45W) which runs all HD content find, even Blue-Ray and HD-DVD films and the quality is amazing, although I've not seen other HD content so got nothing to compare with really.
 
Furton said:
I'm using an Athlon BE-2400 (2.3Ghz at 45W) which runs all HD content find, even Blue-Ray and HD-DVD films and the quality is amazing, although I've not seen other HD content so got nothing to compare with really.
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that's good, I'm going to get one of these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-206-AM

2.6GHz so shouldn't be a problem

what program/OS are you using, I am contemplating using vista premium 32bit
 
what you think to this build by the way:

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only 2GB of ram, hence the 32bit root.

also 500GB hard drive will be offloaded to my storage server when I am building that. so that is only temporary.

not bad for £480 but I will probably save some by shopping around.

EDIT: need to put some research into a cooler that is virtual silent and will fit into case.
 
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64Bit, why not really, no driver issue and might as well use more future proof version.

Do a shop around for a BE-2400, 5000+ will throw out a fair bit of heat, you only need PC2-5300 RAM and make sure you get a quiet cooler, I've got the Zalman CNPS7500-CU CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) which is really quiet and fits with that case and motherboard.

You not tempted to get a Blue-Ray drive?

Also, why not get a bigger HD in case you add a TV card and need to record live TV?
 
Furton said:
64Bit, why not really, no driver issue and might as well use more future proof version.

Do a shop around for a BE-2400, 5000+ will throw out a fair bit of heat, you only need PC2-5300 RAM and make sure you get a quiet cooler, I've got the Zalman CNPS7500-CU CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) which is really quiet and fits with that case and motherboard.

You not tempted to get a Blue-Ray drive?

Also, why not get a bigger HD in case you add a TV card and need to record live TV?
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there is a blue-Ray drive in there, do you think I would spend £88 on a DVD drive :p.

will look into the CPU but want to keep cost down.

as for the bigger drive, i'm going to be setting up a 2-4TB server in under a years time, so it wont actually need this drive, it will save all media on the server.
 
Didn't see the drive, doh :p

Nice amount of storage you'll have, that's my future project as well, money permitting!

Now go and order it! :D
 
Furton said:
Didn't see the drive, doh :p

Nice amount of storage you'll have, that's my future project as well, money permitting!

Now go and order it! :D
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just ran it though the GF, it got vetoed... :(

she tells me we need to save a deposit up 4 a house, and we can do it then. so will put this all on ice for about 6-12 months.

the whole thing (storage server + HTPC) is probably going to come to about 2K including a gigabit lan infrastructure to insure any HD stuff doest swamp the network. :p

by the way, bean doing some reading and I found a few comments saying the vista MCE cant play HD stuff form discs, is this true??

Edit: just re done my sums on this combined project. £1000 for the server for 3TB of storage for discs with a Dell Perc 5/i (expandable to 7TB) - £500 for the HTPC (drop the 500GB drive £420) and about £100 form a 16 port Gigabit Switch. = £1520. bargain

I also have lots of old PC's i can make into firewalls and a DHCP server, two wireless routers/modems i can use one as a modem and one as an assess point

think i might just sell it to the GF as a complete network infrastructure project
 
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No, vista MCE can't play either Blue-Ray or HD-DVD yet, although you can set it up to load PowerDVD when a HD disc is inserted. I think they were waiting to see which format won before committing to integrating it into MCE.
 
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No, vista MCE can't play either Blue-Ray or HD-DVD yet, although you can set it up to load PowerDVD when a HD disc is inserted. I think they were waiting to see which format won before committing to integrating it into MCE.
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shame, that, i might give MythTV a go before i go a get a windows vista copy. cant loses anything by doing that.
 
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