j00e123 said:
I've just built two computers with the Asus 785. I really like them. Before I handed them over to the owners, I used them extensively. I connected them to my 61" Samsung DLP TV. They look great. Audio is also transmitted. With the bundled audio application, you can also easily choose how you deliver your digital audio. These boards have optical audio out if you'd prefer.
Concerning monitors, I also built the first with an ASUS 22.5" monitor with full 1080 and HDMI input. I was really frustrated when the monitor wouldn't underscan to fill the entire screen. Supposively, an earlier version of ATI Catalyst would allow this fairly easily, but I didn't bother since the user was just using the DVI connection. Asus wasn't any help in rectifying the situation. You would hope when you buy an Asus MB and an ASUS Monitor, you wouldn't have any issues. Not always so.
Thanks for that, well the majority of the time i'd probably only be playing dvd's through the computer, so i'm sure hdmi would be fine for that but if i played blu ray i'd imagine have to connect through optical to get 5.1 sound, as from what i've heard from other people, hdmi from a pc only usually delivers 2.0 stereo.
Have to wait and see when i buy all this stuff.