I've build my self a pc for my car last year, this was my 1st DIY work...i still have it still working fine..and not much cash was spent on it.... the only thing that cost me at that time was the in dash TFT lcd...got it from Brothers, using the tv out on the GC. The case was made from an acrylic left overs from a signboard i had lying around...it is running on a P4 2.6, MSI micro ATX mainboard, HDD from a WD notebook HDD. Have 1 120mm vizo uv and 80mm vizo uv fan for cooling. In day time the temp will get as high as 49c, well i'm using the stock Intel fans...haven't change to any aftermarket ones, ram is a DDR 512 from Kingston and the psu i have to mod it a bit. No keyboard is attached to my cpu..only using a logitech wireless mouse. As logn as it can play MP3 and any movie file format...i'm good

you PM me asking to post the pix of my car pc..sorry for the delays... keep on forgetting to take pix...so here it is.. not much..coz i D.I.Y the enclosure... might be ugly..

Here's my Power/Reset button and Led's for HDD and Power


I integrated my usb ports on my center console.


This is my mouse to navigate through windows..ehehe..cute ain't it?


And this is my 6.5 " indash TFT lcd i bought from brothers.... good enough for me!


Ok now this is the CPU unit....not much but i laminate it with checked plate stickers...so that i doesn't absorb heat that is in the trunk.


ok now this is a view of the internal parts... just the basic parts though!


The coolers...1 unit of 120mm and 80 mm vizo fans.....mount 1 to blow and 1 to suck... the 80mm have the highest rpm so it is better for me to use it to suck all the hot air near the cpu HSF area.. i think it would be cooler that way.


So this idling temp of my CPU....not bad huh? this was taken around 10am in the morning before i leave for work..


this is taken after 45 minutes drive to my office.. i was running on Media Player 11 and the temp rise 3 degress... still ok larrr.. but if i run the visualization on the media player it can reach up to 44 degress..and you can see that the case temp irose quite a lot...which is still ok for me.


and finally this is the night shot of my lcd running the media player visualization.




The End.....

This post has been edited by Zyntherius: Mar 2 2007, 01:07 PM

Touch screen are expensive dude...especially the Liliput brand... plus its not easy to make touch screen works with pc's... requires special wiring..

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I use an inverter to supply the power to the PSU.... The inverter i wired direct to the battery...its not a good idea to use the cigarettes lighter..becoz the fuse can't take it... and the inverter must be 300watss and above...

My inverters will not work if the pc is off..even though the inverter is switched on...i tried leaving the inverter switched on for 3 days without using the car ( that was on CNY holidays) after the 4th day... my car battery didn't die oso... so if incase i forgot to switch of the inverter my batter will not die..

This post has been edited by Zyntherius: Mar 7 2007, 11:04 AM