Jay, that looks like a nice motherboard. Like mine, it dosn't seem to support HD audio in any way though.

I see AMD has a cheepo video card that will send 8 channel lpcm over hdmi. I am guessing that the card decodes the HD format and re-encodes as lpcm.

Fred

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