JuniorGeezer

I postponed the CarPC for two months and messed around with my audio in my car. I finally built a subwoofer that satisfies me but this took a lot of tinkering.

So today I procured and installed an inexpensive Nvidia based graphics card, the Asus EN6200TC.

I was able to dial in 800x480 as a custom setting and for all I know it is displayed correctly.

Before I installed the Nvidia graphics card, my computer based on the Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T5500 consumed 26 W with the Windows XP desktip idling, which was very good.

After installing the Nvidia graphics card, the idle power consumption went up to 40 W which is very disappointing. The graphics card adds 14 W and gets quite hot.

And the graphics card would make the computer enclosure a lot taller.

So, this totally sucks! Had I known all this, I would not have gone with the expensive Intel mobile processor and mainboard. Instead I would have taken an Athlon X2 EE CPU, saved a lot of money and achieved 800x480 with not a lot more power consumption.

But maybe Giuliano or someone else can come up with more things to try to get the 800x480 working on the Intel mainboard graphics?

This whole mess bothers me so much that I'm serously considering getting a Commell LV-677DC mainboard. This would do 800x480 with the driver from cartft.com. It would obsolete my M2-ATX power supply, my MSI mainboard and the graphics card.