'95 Nissan Maxima SE

**blauhung** · 03-22-2007, 11:35 AM

Still just starting off, but I figgured that i would start up in here.

First off, Hi and a thank you to all the forums for all the useful info.

my system(probably)
Intel C2D Merom T7XXX
(can't decide on which, I work for Intel so they are 50% off)
Kontron 986LCD miniITX
2GB Kingston ddr2-667
8GB Trancend CF card
(plugs right in the board, will probably put windows and the page file here)
debating getting a ransflective screen or just a normal 7"
Travla-C138 case (probably will replace the power supply, but i'm not sure)

That's about where i'm at right now.

and here's where it's going (cell phone cam, meh)

**blauhung** · 03-30-2007, 12:49 PM

I'm a bit more solid on all my components now

my system
Intel C2D Merom T7400
Kontron 986LCD miniITX
2GB Kingston ddr2-667
8GB CF card
MP3car's Transflective screen
Travla-C138 case
Panasonic Slot Load DVD-ROM/CD-RW
Seagate Momentus 120GB SATA150
AuzenTech X-Meridian 7.1 Sound Card

**thorolf15** · 03-30-2007, 01:43 PM

Looks good, but I don't get the picture? That can't be what you want to do? There's no screen? Maybe I'm just being blond here

**blauhung** · 03-30-2007, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by thorolf15

Looks good, but I don't get the picture? That can't be what you want to do? There's no screen? Maybe I'm just being blond here

ah, hehe, more late night posting with a bit of beer in me. Thats the before picture. Soon there will be a screen in there.

[ramble]
I just got all the stuff i need together to start up a computer. I'm still a bit iffy on the sound card, but i'll settle on that one eventually.

I'm going for good sound as a goal, that's why the x-meridian card looks pretty good. I have an x-fi in my computer at home, but there's a butt load of stuff running in the background with it and i figgure something else would be good to compair with.

The double din is nearly perfect for a widescreen 7" so i'm just gona stuff that in there. Putting the computer in the trunk, with the amps. Probably route a powered USB hub into the armrest storage thingy and plug in a external slot load CD drive there.

I just got a USB GPS reviever today and played around with GooPS, a plugin for Google Earth. It was awesome watching my drive to work on my laptop.

The motherboard i got is sweet. I love how it has a Mini-pcie slot and a CF reader on the back. I got a intel wireless card in the pcie slot so i can network while home, and i have a BLackberry that i'm gona use for a modem so i'll have roving internet.

For a front end, i'm gona try to keep software cheep, so i'll do RoadRunner over windows xp. I was looking into LinuxICE, but sound card support for linux is kinda lax so who knows if i'll end up there, and i think i may have a "cheep/not so legal" copy of XP sitting around.

I was reading a bunch of stuff about putting the OS on the CF drive, but i didn't know about the limited # of writes to a given bit on them which ends up making you use a special embedded version of windows. Boot times don't go down too much, and it just sounded like far too much hassle for little gain. I got a 8GB flash card for it on a whim, and now i got little to no clue as to what to do with it. *shrug*
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