if you have bajet, it's good to add asus hdav1.3 soundcard because this card have excellent video processing...i bought mine cheap and used from lowyat.. it will give a significant enhancement when watching rip video on tv... i dont have blueray drive so i don't know if this will give any diffrence though.. and one more thing, keep in mind hdmi version in hdav is 1.3, so there maybe limitation especially in gaming, but not sure... use my htpc just for surf, playback and light gaming.. so far so good...