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Geking · 05-31-2005, 12:34 AM

gong chep has its side effects. It can be more challanging as well as much harder to do.
For a good cheap system, you need any smllish Motherboard and CPU laying around. I am using a 1.3 Ghz AMD athalon cpu with 256 of pc133
(total cost new, around $70?)

For the Video, I bought a $25 ATi 7000 that has S-Video out. this is connected to a 4 inch LCD that natively uses 12 volts. (can be pulled right off of the pc power supply) A screen of that size is less than $100

For power, I built a 550 watt 12 volt (car power) DC to 120 volt (Us ac) adapter. These can be purchesed for around $50. Any standard or small footprint pc (baby tower) pc power supply will work

For input, I took a $4 keyboard, and took it apart. Inside is a thin plastic set of sheets that did the work in the large unrollable keyboard. A little bit of sharpie to lable the keys, and you have a roll up keyboard for cheap. Also, as I just use winamp, a serial control can be used to control the basic functions of playback a quick search or wiamp.com's plugins tells all. As a new feature, I found a nifty device called OpticalBar that gives you touch screen like capabilities, and has some powerful software.

Any old IDE desktop drive works well, but I did throw mine in a removable tray so that I could update my music Database as needed.

A 20x slotloading IDE desktop drive is hard to find, but can be gotten for around $5 at some used computer shops. By useing a slot loeading drive, you have less of a hassle when ptting a new cd in.

For a case, mine is made out of metal and plexiglass

A gps is optional, but I use a Tripnav GPS that is just under $100

And software, nothing fancy, just Windows xp, Winamp, mappoint and girder to tie together everything

Everything is in USD
I will update and finalise this post when it is not 2 am, and others are more than welcome to take/expand apon/fix all the spelling issues... this post

05-31-2005, 12:34 AM	#3
Geking Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Northern Va Posts: 32	Cheap! gong chep has its side effects. It can be more challanging as well as much harder to do. For a good cheap system, you need any smllish Motherboard and CPU laying around. I am using a 1.3 Ghz AMD athalon cpu with 256 of pc133 (total cost new, around $70?) For the Video, I bought a $25 ATi 7000 that has S-Video out. this is connected to a 4 inch LCD that natively uses 12 volts. (can be pulled right off of the pc power supply) A screen of that size is less than $100 For power, I built a 550 watt 12 volt (car power) DC to 120 volt (Us ac) adapter. These can be purchesed for around $50. Any standard or small footprint pc (baby tower) pc power supply will work For input, I took a $4 keyboard, and took it apart. Inside is a thin plastic set of sheets that did the work in the large unrollable keyboard. A little bit of sharpie to lable the keys, and you have a roll up keyboard for cheap. Also, as I just use winamp, a serial control can be used to control the basic functions of playback a quick search or wiamp.com's plugins tells all. As a new feature, I found a nifty device called OpticalBar that gives you touch screen like capabilities, and has some powerful software. Any old IDE desktop drive works well, but I did throw mine in a removable tray so that I could update my music Database as needed. A 20x slotloading IDE desktop drive is hard to find, but can be gotten for around $5 at some used computer shops. By useing a slot loeading drive, you have less of a hassle when ptting a new cd in. For a case, mine is made out of metal and plexiglass A gps is optional, but I use a Tripnav GPS that is just under $100 And software, nothing fancy, just Windows xp, Winamp, mappoint and girder to tie together everything Everything is in USD I will update and finalise this post when it is not 2 am, and others are more than welcome to take/expand apon/fix all the spelling issues... this post __________________ Every day driver, 1989 Celica. Probly won't get a carpc for a while Working on: 1972 240z. Gonna put a V8 and a Turion in it. Best power in bothworlds. Now if only I could get my theoretical boot as low as my theroretical 1/4 mile time (8.22 s)