VIA ivp-7500 - new dedicated car pc motherboard

**jiggersplat** · 03-22-2009, 10:03 AM

anyone seen this yet?

IVP-7500

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ma...erboard_id=790

http://www.slashgear.com/via-ivp-750...ss-pc-1938163/

**nocturnal1** · 03-23-2009, 06:55 PM

Size: Good
IDE only: Bad
Not fanless: Bad
Only 1.0GHz Eden: Bad, their just too slow. They need to put their 1.6Ghz Nano Cpu in it like they did with the VB8001 Mini-ITX board.
In fact the VB8001 is the only board that uses the much faster Nano. I don't understand what their waiting for maybe the dual core's since Intel has allready released their dual core Atom's. Their getting blown out of the water by the Atom's.

**ik632** · 03-26-2009, 11:38 AM

I have to agree, the board looks good, but doesn't seam fast enough. The technology is there to make it faster. This will require some serious system fine tuning to get it to run well. It also sounds like it's going to be around $200 with all the goodies they have included. I'm confused by the FM transmitter though, shouldn't they have included a receiver instead?

**jiggersplat** · 03-26-2009, 11:40 AM

what are you guys running on your car PCs that you need so much power?

**Tidder** · 03-26-2009, 11:46 AM

It's just nice to have a snappy interface. And a snappy interface is directly affected to how fast your CarPC can process it.

I see it how I see hotrods. You ask why so much power... I ask how we can get it to put out more.

**ik632** · 03-26-2009, 12:01 PM

Yeah, you don't want the screen to lag when you're showing off to your friends how cool this carPC is you spent months and countless dollars on is

**Maheriano** · 03-26-2009, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by ik632

I have to agree, the board looks good, but doesn't seam fast enough. The technology is there to make it faster. This will require some serious system fine tuning to get it to run well. It also sounds like it's going to be around $200 with all the goodies they have included. I'm confused by the FM transmitter though, shouldn't they have included a receiver instead?

By using a transmitter, they can transmit the audio from the computer over an FM frequency which can be picked up by the car's factory radio tuned to a certain station. Makes much more sense than a receiver.

**jiggersplat** · 03-26-2009, 01:07 PM

well i can see the argument for both... the thing i don't get is that if it's targetted at OEMs, you'd think they'd have a better option for hooking in audio than an FM transmitter.

if you ask me, the thing that it is *really* missing or maybe i just didn't see it is an integrated dc/dc power converter & startup-shutdown controller.

at any rate, it's good to know that companies are starting to take the market for this stuff seriously.

**ik632** · 03-30-2009, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by Maheriano

By using a transmitter, they can transmit the audio from the computer over an FM frequency which can be picked up by the car's factory radio tuned to a certain station. Makes much more sense than a receiver.

I used one of those FM transmitters back in 2000 when I had my first carPC. It was a desktop pc in the back seat connected to a 4" lcd sitting under my dash. The only way I could get the audio into the stereo was to use an FM transmitter back then. Oh the memories...