New to 6gc Options

[b22ri22an]

Purchased a used but loved 25th anniversay edition about 3 months ago, and so far I love this place. I wanted to say Hi to everyone and thank them for there contributions which will undoubtfully help me out along the way. Feel free to look at my profile to see my new baby.

[stephen_lee]

i went with a lilliput 7in touch panel. its not the best in direct sunlight but it uses ~2.5 watts if u get the LED backlit one. Fits perfectly in the radio hole with a bit of dremel work.

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=57327

My setup is not the BEST, but it works reliably. My project car will have a much better designed carPC and i will post up the progression in my swap progress thread in my sig.

i have an 800w inverter attatched to my sub box, along with an 800w 4ch amp for the mids and a 1200w monoblock for my 15".
the inverter powers my dual core athlon 64 x2 desktop board, 512 megs ram (faster hibernation) and a 120GB HDD, wireless card. i have XP pro (got it free from work) and currently use no frontend. use winamp for music/videos and delorme street atlas & gps for navigation. i built the machine in the passenger quarter panel behind the rear speaker. the PC uses about 10a while playing music. 1 or so in standby. (@12v)

im leaning towards an miniITX board with an AMD sempron single core, same screen, same ram, maybe a SSD for my 2nd carPC (which will be my 5th carPC build) thinking of going with win7 since i like its mediacenter, but ill need more ram so slower hibernation. im expecting this build to use about 3-4 amps while in use, .25-.5 in standby. (all 12v amperes)