Thread: This new motherboard should make installing a carputer MUCH simpler.

Actually, its not all that small. 6.7 x 6.7 compared to the FV24 which is 7 x 7.5 but it does have SPDIF 5.1 audio channels. THey claim that it is more than 40% smaller than any other mainboard form factor currently available on the market. Guess they haven't seen the FV24.

I know the sv24 is about 120$ www.niema.com did a tight little fileserver completly out of plexiglass should check out the hardware he used it would be a good crossover for a mp3box.
On the otherhand for those of us who don't want to spend that much of money i saw this, gateway mobo link, gateway motherboard thats like 30 bucks and can get a 30$ 600celeron to plop in it. I know its gateway mobo but its not very big and still has 2 pci slots for a good soundcard and whatever else you want to put in the other. The only bad thing is the lack of serial ports just video and usb aval. would be interesting to make something out of it thought. I'm thinkin about buyin it for the start of my new box.

Btw, it also has onboard sound and video wouldn't imagine very good though

[ 11-07-2001: Message edited by: Krash ]

http://www.viahardware.com

there are some picks on front page, looks nice, says chip can go up to round 800 and seems to have enough cache, so should beable to run divx and dvds right ?

I dont know if this is what you are looking for, but you could try these sites:

www.minidisc.org - there is a construction project page there, one of which is http://www.qsl.net/eb4eqa/spdif_spli...f_splitter.htm


Hope this helps