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- Oct 4, 2004
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- Saskatoon, SK
This is a project I am undertaking. And originally I was going to use a 12V power supply from www.powerstream.com, but I figured that was going to be too much money and a waste compared to getting a cheap ~300W PSU and a power invertor. So my idea right now is since I work a computer recycling program I am going to try to get one of our P400 64mb ram onboard video IBM machines. And throw in an audigy or audigy 2 card.
The computer I WANT to build (assuming I can get my old xp2100+ pally back from a friend) is:
I wont have a monitor right now, eventually I will get a 10" XGA lcd screen off ebay. But funds are limited enough right now.
The good things: I'm excellent with electronics, I will chop up my logitech keyboard since it has play/pause/rew/ff/mute/volume and make a little controller with buttons and run the wires back to where the keyboard is hooked up to the computer. So I can get someone to hook up steering wheel controls and attach my button mod to it.
I plan to run it without a monitor. I will just assume it will boot right into windows all the time (I'll configre everything at home) and put keyboard shortcuts on the computer. So control+alt+shift+1 will load up a playlist etc.
It's kind of hard to explain what I want to do, but I'm sure you all know how a car PC works. The idea I want to do is have the computer hidden in the trunk spare tire spot or something and have NO deck (The soontoget monitor will be mounted in there. Throw in another audigy 2 PCI card and have front out go to an amp, rear out to an amp and power my car like that. I know there are some things I'm missing but I've wanted to do this for a while now.
For shock protection I can figure something out later, probably using bed sponge stuff. I can rig up cooling aswell.
Just worried about amping, the front/rear of the sound card is enough. It supports 24bit sound so its all good for quality.
I think all I need to worry about is amps for the speakers and the keyboard rigup for controls.
Like I always say if I'm gonna do something I'm gonna do it right. Besides I dont see this costing me as much as I originally thought a couple months back when I was dreaming about car PC.
What do you guys think?
PS. Is styrofoam conductive?
The computer I WANT to build (assuming I can get my old xp2100+ pally back from a friend) is:
Motherboard: ASRock K7S41GX 741GX 400Mhz On-board Video AGP8X 2PCI 2DDR 6xUSB2.0 5.1-Audio LAN $65.00
Memory: 256MB PC2700 DDR 333mhz $55.00
Hard Drive: Western Digital 20GB 7200RPM Refurbished $49.00
DC to AC: Eliminator Power Inverters, 800 W $99.99
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (OEM) $39.00
PSU: 350W ATX Power Supply $28.00
KB: Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard $39.99
Mouse: Cicero Mini Optical Mouse - Blue $19.99
Total-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------$395.97
I wont have a monitor right now, eventually I will get a 10" XGA lcd screen off ebay. But funds are limited enough right now.
The good things: I'm excellent with electronics, I will chop up my logitech keyboard since it has play/pause/rew/ff/mute/volume and make a little controller with buttons and run the wires back to where the keyboard is hooked up to the computer. So I can get someone to hook up steering wheel controls and attach my button mod to it.
I plan to run it without a monitor. I will just assume it will boot right into windows all the time (I'll configre everything at home) and put keyboard shortcuts on the computer. So control+alt+shift+1 will load up a playlist etc.
It's kind of hard to explain what I want to do, but I'm sure you all know how a car PC works. The idea I want to do is have the computer hidden in the trunk spare tire spot or something and have NO deck (The soontoget monitor will be mounted in there. Throw in another audigy 2 PCI card and have front out go to an amp, rear out to an amp and power my car like that. I know there are some things I'm missing but I've wanted to do this for a while now.
For shock protection I can figure something out later, probably using bed sponge stuff. I can rig up cooling aswell.
Just worried about amping, the front/rear of the sound card is enough. It supports 24bit sound so its all good for quality.
I think all I need to worry about is amps for the speakers and the keyboard rigup for controls.
Like I always say if I'm gonna do something I'm gonna do it right. Besides I dont see this costing me as much as I originally thought a couple months back when I was dreaming about car PC.
What do you guys think?
PS. Is styrofoam conductive?