Thread: Newb with a few remaing questions

As far as heat goes a lot of that depends on what sort of system you're putting together..... a low power VIA type board, or the latest/fastest pentium or AMD board. I personally have a 1Ghz VIA board crammed in a small metal case along with an OPUS power supply and 3.5" HD and it's under the passenger seat with no heat problems here in Florida. There's a fan on the CPU and a one on the case so at least you'll want a case fan. You could also run a temp monitoring program (motherboard monitor, etc...) to keep an eye on it, but I haven't had any problems here.

As far as the integrating with a sound system there are some good FAQs that deal with that in detail, just go check out the FAQ section and browse some of those. But basically you can either hook up your computer's audio to an external input of your existing radio/head unit, or ditch the head unit and hook computer's audio straight to aftermarket amps.