Anyone have a car computer?

strykr · Post by **strykr** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:06 pm

Just woundering if anyone else has a computer in their car along with an LCD?

I got a 2.4Ghz computer, with 300GB Hard Drive and a 7.1 Surrond Card. I also have a 7" Touchscreen LCD in my console to control everything.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:27 pm

i dont think anyone here has one.....i really want to put one in my car, once i get some money....

strykr · Post by **strykr** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:35 pm

believe me its worth it! and it isnt too hard to do either.. as long as u kno what ur doing with electronics and have a deck with inputs.

Search MP3Car in google and go to their forums it will give u everything u need 2 kno

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:11 pm

strykr wrote:believe me its worth it! and it isnt too hard to do either.. as long as u kno what ur doing with electronics and have a deck with inputs.

Search MP3Car in google and go to their forums it will give u everything u need 2 kno

what is your setup? got any pics of it?

lawhon · Post by **lawhon** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:23 pm

A guy in my car club has a carputer in his Lancer, 7in lcd screen..........mostly laptop componets........but think he has over a 1000 gigs of music, what ever is after a gig he says. All he's running with the computer is music and gps.

yellowpatrol · Post by **yellowpatrol** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:23 pm

-Devil- · Post by **-Devil-** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:54 pm

heh i have a laptop i carry in my truck .. does that count? ...

i had thought about it a few times .. even gathered up the components to run one (minus the LCD screen) ... was setup ready to go with 4 2 gig compactflash cards and adapters so they would work with ATA ...

but then realized that i didn't really have a need for it ...

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:03 pm

jesus, unless its lossless or .wav 1TB of music is kinda ridiculous.

strykr · Post by **strykr** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:27 pm

well depends on how much music u listen to 1TB isnt much... because alot of ppl that do this also put movies onto it and run high def GPS map programs.. so it eats up quick... mine is almost full!

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:44 am

i'm building my car pc still...

amd 65W X2 processor, 1gb ram, 400gb hard drive, onboard 7.1 high def audio, etc

there's a project log about it if you feel like searchin...i think its still on the first page

Paralyzer · Post by **Paralyzer** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:33 pm

I am working on mine right now. I am using the following:

Dell Inspiron 1200
2.4ghz Intel processor
120GB IDE notebook hard drive
1.25GB DDR RAM
Onboard Video Card
PCIMCA Sound Blaster 24 bit Live Adapter
300w power inverter
Duleo GPS Adapter

iGuidance GPS Software
Windows XP Professional Tiny Edition
Road Runner Font End Software
TR Sat weather radar system

I have some other odd and end parts but that is most of the setup. I am working on my 7" touch screen, and integrations of a laptop DVD drive slot load in the dash.

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:58 pm

considering my car broke my hard-drive from the rough ride while transporting my pc from home to school. I am def. not gonna be putting a pc in my car unless i get an srt or something other in the future.

lawhon · Post by **lawhon** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:27 pm

well.........also, can't remember the program he hacked for the carputer........but it doesn't have a fm antanna, so the music files will be needed. who needs FM when you have that, plus XM?!

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:33 pm

rage: laptop drives can handle a lot more abuse...

relenger · Post by **relenger** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:58 pm

lawhon wrote:A guy in my car club has a carputer in his Lancer, 7in lcd screen..........mostly laptop componets........but think he has over a 1000 gigs of music, what ever is after a gig he says. All he's running with the computer is music and gps.

Not sure if i believe this, 1 MP3 = around 3 - 10 MB
Just for fun we will say ALL of his songs are atleast 10MB (most are closer to 3MB)

1000Gigs = 1,024,000 MB

So 10 X 1,024,000 = 102,400 Songs on the LOW end and 341,333 on the High end...

My father-inlaw is a DJ and has ONLY 25,000 Songs and that only takes up 300Gigs...... (thats with movies and Apps)

Most songs ive ever seen WITHOUT duplicates was 78,000 Songs and thats not even close to 300,000.....

I think your friend is telling you stories

strykr wrote:well depends on how much music u listen to 1TB isnt much... because alot of ppl that do this also put movies onto it and run high def GPS map programs.. so it eats up quick... mine is almost full!

He said Music Not Movies, Using a TB is easy, I got almost 3TB filed between movies, Music, Pictures and Programs....... But 1TB worh of music is Over kill... And illegal.. LOL

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:04 pm

This post is way old...

But I would like to see pics of car computers. I think it would be cool.

But kind of hard on the electronics to constantly be shutting on and off.

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:07 pm

You're close aint ya? Come check out mine son... Hibernating is less abusive than a full hard boot, its what I use, plus the system boots a lot faster coming out of hibernation...

relenger · Post by **relenger** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:28 pm

Im gonna wait till they come out with an IPAD that can multi-task like the new IPhone

nineball · Post by **nineball** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:35 pm

relenger wrote:But 1TB worh of music is Over kill... And illegal.. LOL

i beg to differ. i have well over 9000 store-bought cds from my days as a dj, and everything i encode is at 320k or higher (apple lossless). it is not hard to fill up 1tb with music and certainly can be done legally. someday i will start ripping my 12k+ albums as well...

relenger · Post by **relenger** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:08 pm

nineball wrote:
relenger wrote:But 1TB worh of music is Over kill... And illegal.. LOL

i beg to differ. i have well over 9000 store-bought cds from my days as a dj, and everything i encode is at 320k or higher (apple lossless). it is not hard to fill up 1tb with music and certainly can be done legally. someday i will start ripping my 12k+ albums as well...

I never said impossible but not likely, 9000 store bought cds? Thats alot of money there... and about 180,000 songs if they all got 20 per disk...... For a DJ thats bad ass but for most people thats ovrkill

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:15 am

NiteHawk wrote:You're close aint ya? Come check out mine son... Hibernating is less abusive than a full hard boot, its what I use, plus the system boots a lot faster coming out of hibernation...

Are you coming to Carlisle Matt. If so I'll see it then. If not I'll have to go check it out some time.

Wouldn't hibernation be hard on the battery.

Post by **racer12306** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:19 am

When a computer hibernates it preserves the session and shuts down the computer. Then when you fire it back up, it's ready pretty quick and your stuff from the last session is ready to go.

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:44 am

Yeah I will be at carlisle. Hibernation doesn't kill the battery. You can unplug a computer that's inhibernation for a very long time and it will still come out of hibernation like nothing ever happened...

What you need is a power supply that is smart... I'm running an M4ATX. Once the computer goes into hibernation, all of the rails shut off except the 5v rail. 60 seconds later, that shuts off too, so now there is no power draw at all(actuallý 20mA draw, but that's not enough to drain a battery)

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:11 am

racer12306 wrote:When a computer hibernates it preserves the session and shuts down the computer. Then when you fire it back up, it's ready pretty quick and your stuff from the last session is ready to go.

I know... My computer goes into hibernation after a few hours.
But I figured it would be hard on the battery.

But yea 20ma is nothing.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:07 pm

That's probably from the motherboard led

9000 CDs, mother of god!

I'll probably be throwing my mini-itx board into my center console to have an active MS computer in the car so I don't have to haul my netbook in there. Ideally, I'm looking into a touch screen between my visors.

CarMP3 is a great resource as mentioned above. They have no moving mechanical parts for vibration resistance. Also, they are more resistant to temperature changes with no close tolerances. between heads and platters.

nineball · Post by **nineball** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:41 pm

relenger wrote:
nineball wrote:
relenger wrote:But 1TB worh of music is Over kill... And illegal.. LOL

i beg to differ. i have well over 9000 store-bought cds from my days as a dj, and everything i encode is at 320k or higher (apple lossless). it is not hard to fill up 1tb with music and certainly can be done legally. someday i will start ripping my 12k+ albums as well...

I never said impossible but not likely, 9000 store bought cds? Thats alot of money there... and about 180,000 songs if they all got 20 per disk...... For a DJ thats bad ass but for most people thats ovrkill

yep, it is a lot of cds

at the time i was pulling in $2000-3000 a week, cash, under the table. i made 3-5 trips to various stores weekly building up my collection as fast as i could. i was young and had no bills other than my half of the rent and utilities so buying tons of music was pretty easy for me to do.

while they might not all have 20 songs each a large portion of them were trance / house / progressive / d-n-b / etc etc are are, on average, 7-8 mins long. that is one huge file when encoded at 320kbps or higher.

i am still trying to find good software for ripping my 12,000+ pieces of vinyl. so far every one i have tried has left me wanting more.

Paralyzer · Post by **Paralyzer** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:27 pm

I have had 2 in my car but right now I don't have one. Not hard to do and not all that expensive either. I did both of mine with install for about $450 and everyone that saw it at shows thought it was a $3K install. it was nice and clean and did a lot of stuff. Main reason I did it was for GPS and music library. now my phone does all that and I just have a windows mount for now. great fun when I had them. I will do another one in the future though.

speed127 · Post by **speed127** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:31 pm

i would love to see this all mounted and done up right... any pis????