im a bit stuck with above, its for watching blurays mainly and hdmi will go to an onkyo 605 so next question is do either transmit dolbyhd or dts hd over hdmi?
I wouldn't touch Intels integrated - no VC-1 acceleration ASFAIK and zip all gaming performance (compared to 780G).
CPU wise I would go for a Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition (65nm, multiplier unlocked) - at least until the new energy efficient one is released or Intel E2xxx series (plus a mild overclock)
To answer your question about the sound formats, nothing yet outputs (pc based I mean) the new formats. The HDMI out is just SPDIF over HDMI, so limited to 1500kb/s in bandwidth. Far below the bitrate of the new sound formats.
as ubernoob said, there's nothing around right now that can output LPCM (uncompressed pcm) or the bitstream HD audio formats (Dolby TrueHD / DTS: Master audio) form a pc source. all you'll get is spdif quality as that is really all they are doing atm - hooking up the spdif output from a sound device and passing it through the hdmi output.
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