wintertidenz
28-04-2012, 11:28 PM
Got sick of where the current CarPC was sitting, and the little niggling issues that kept popping up, so I decided to do a complete teardown and rebuild.
Sorry don't have many pictures up until now - I spent about 4 hours last night getting it all up and running.
I found at my old job an old security alarm case that was perfect for my needs - strong, good size, and above all - tamper proof when a suitable lock is installed. So I cut up the old case, and used the floor of it for the motherboard to sit on.
I had previously ran up a copy of Windows XP on my main computer as a virtual machine for a CarPC build - it was half finished, so I exported it across to a spare HDD I had lying around and fired that up, then started installing drivers and front-ends.
Currently the PC looks like this on my "office" floor:
53043
Specs of CarPC are:
Gigabyte GA-GC230D motherboard with Intel Atom 230 CPU overclocked slightly to 1.8GHz.
1GB RAM
80GB SATA HDD
Creative Live! 5.1 with EMU10k1 chipset
External CD/DVD writer
The reason I went back to XP on this build was because Windows 7 didn't play so nicely with my touchscreen, or the kX audio driver I had installed.
I prefer to use the kX audio drivers because I can tweak crossovers, time alignment, EQs and a lot more and have it all processed directly from the soundcard with minimal CPU overhead.
Sorry don't have many pictures up until now - I spent about 4 hours last night getting it all up and running.
I found at my old job an old security alarm case that was perfect for my needs - strong, good size, and above all - tamper proof when a suitable lock is installed. So I cut up the old case, and used the floor of it for the motherboard to sit on.
I had previously ran up a copy of Windows XP on my main computer as a virtual machine for a CarPC build - it was half finished, so I exported it across to a spare HDD I had lying around and fired that up, then started installing drivers and front-ends.
Currently the PC looks like this on my "office" floor:
53043
Specs of CarPC are:
Gigabyte GA-GC230D motherboard with Intel Atom 230 CPU overclocked slightly to 1.8GHz.
1GB RAM
80GB SATA HDD
Creative Live! 5.1 with EMU10k1 chipset
External CD/DVD writer
The reason I went back to XP on this build was because Windows 7 didn't play so nicely with my touchscreen, or the kX audio driver I had installed.
I prefer to use the kX audio drivers because I can tweak crossovers, time alignment, EQs and a lot more and have it all processed directly from the soundcard with minimal CPU overhead.