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im not sure about the 7.1 sound, but a mATX mainboard with the ati HD3200 should suit you for the rest, in an antec minuet case.. also i like your choice of using a SSD drive for maximum silence 
as for CPU, the HD3200 which is with the 790G chipset(iirc) is an AM2 platform, i'd take a amd x2 4450e or something.. an energy efficient CPU which you can attach a very small/silent cooler to, and there you go, a silent an capable HTPC 
toms did a comparison on the nvidia platform and the 790g chipset a couple of months ago.. you can probably find it in the mainboard news archive.. somewhere
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