Motherboard thoughts?

[Mummelmann]

Chrkeller said:

Mummelmann said:

It's a very good MB, lots of slots for M.2, PCIe 4.0 and 5.0, modern USB 3.2, all-round support is sound. MSI build great MBs. Beware of Intel's tendency to not support their sockets for all that long though, in case you're looking to upgrade your CPU within 4-5 years or so. The way I see it, a 200 pound MB is not overkill paired with a 4070 and a fast i7. Quick question though; will you be using headphones or speakers? I think that line of cards has some pretty weak audio capabilities.

The plan is to run audio to TV via hdmi, which uses hdmi to sonos arc and surrounds.  I assume, correct me if I'm wrong, the GPU would push the audio?

Hmm, the signal has to go through the HDMI, but I'm not sure whether the MB audio codecs are still being used. Honestly, I don't know. But if you are to use an external output device without a dedicated software suite, I don't think it matters all that much regardless. It should work well, but I still hope someone more knowledgeable comes in to the rescue on this particular issue.