sweet! that pic of the sub is still awesome!

 

ordered the grills, i thought i ordered them the other week turned out i didnt? lol -_- well their expected thuresday or friday.

I've now decided my transport will be a carputer, i'm an EXTREMLEY capible computer builder, with an intense background in computers and electronics and elctro machanics, i think i can manage a carputer, for once it'll be something i know what I'm really doing just need to learn a few more things, i think ifound the screen i wanna use -
Preassembled Black Double Din LCD Frame with 7" Lilliput 669GL-70NP/C/T-HB-RV HDMI DVI High Brightness


the case -

MV101 Auto Mini-ITX Case


this motherboard in particular ive had in mind for a long time, its an exceptional motherboard, this is a truley higher end motherboard at a great price, gonna use HDMI since it'll be easier to find a 12' HDMi cable than a DVI or VGA cable that long

Newegg.com - ASUS M4A88T-I Deluxe AM3 AMD 880G HDMI USB 3.0 Mini ITX AMD Motherboard


CPU - extreme over kill here, might switch to something a little less powerfull.
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDE00ZFBGRBOX


ram

Newegg.com - G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBSQ



i'll have updates with the rest of the gear i'll be using, also bought a GPS antena and software from another member here. dont know much about it, but it's GPS.

to interface, i'll be using something like this

Newegg.com - VisionTek Candyboard Black 69 Normal Keys Bluetooth Wireless Mini Keyboard


OR

Newegg.com - Logitech diNovo Mini Black 63 Normal Keys Bluetooth Wireless Mini Keyboard

 

YES! carputers are awesome! i have been looking at them also. kinda want a touch screan though. (edit) looks like yours is a touch screen. i kinda looked through ipads and what not but i would have to relocate the HVAC controls. that CPU would definitly be over kill.. but hell the way i look at it. go big or go home . this build is gonna be sick

 

this is the gear i ended up ordering -
120gb SSD 550MB\s read speads and 500 write speeds, chose to go with the new AMU format with AMD so i could get the upgraded sata III port to run a single SSD rather than two to get the boot speeds i desired.
Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX SH100S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-alone Drive)


motherboard, onboard video with HDMI out, as well as optic out but i'm gonna use an external sound card just to handle the audio a little bit more before its transported.
Newegg.com - ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX AMD Motherboard


AMD's new AMU style CPU\GPU chips, its basicly a small video card on a CPU. the motherboard utalizes it with it's chipset rather than a video chipset, shortening the distances for data, making a very efficient machine.
Newegg.com - AMD A8-3850 Llano 2.9GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 6550D AD3850WNGXBOX


8GB of DDR3 1866 ram
Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Plug n Play Desktop Memory Model KHX1866C11D3P1K2/8G


DVD player\CD ROM DVD burner modernized sliding drive.
Newegg.com - Sony Optiarc CD/DVD Burner 8X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 6X DVD+R DL 8X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 24X CD-R 24X CD-RW Black SATA Model AD-7690H-01 - CD / DVD Burners


can't forget about the audio! this will upsample everything better and give out a much cleaner signal.
Newegg.com - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional 70SB088600002 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card


of course you need an interface other than the touchscreen for quick searching and such.
Newegg.com - Logitech diNovo Mini Black 63 Normal Keys Bluetooth Wireless Mini Keyboard


also bought from a member here -

160 watt power supply.
M2-ATX (160w) Intelligent DC-DC Car PC Power Supply


radio interface for computer
Mp3Car BoomzBox HD Radio USB Controlled AM/FM Tuner


Centrafuse 3.6 software for a car friendly inteface, media player and computer UI as aposed to fumbling with windows while driving.

this is where I'm gonna put the DVD drive, unless i can get it up by the screen but I don't know, we'll find out I guess, but this is the primary location I've selected. it's not the best place but I mean honestly how often will i be using cd's? i'll only need it for when I'm competing because if i recall they need to use a CD. I might put a SD card reader somewhere.

 

woo first string of parts came today









little surprise! the motherboard came with a media remote! :O a very well designed one that'll do everything i need. has a mouse togglke on one side, with volume control and tracking, and a full keyboard on the other.

 

oh you read that whole thing? i dont think even I would read the entiredy of my old build log..and i loged it all lol, its quite the adventure that's for sure.

I have some eye candy, I have bene holding off on the random posts but this is a monumental update! the heart of my system just arived, my ZED audio Leviathan III (thats right! the III! ) the III is the 4th revsision of this amp and is it simply...in one word.. BEASTLY, its smaller than i thought it was, and allllot lighter than i expected. quality over all is spectacular, clear cover is just..eye candy and the circuits look solid and very clean, well designed bored standard layout with some toys, most of the extra add ons i wont be using but this baby pushes out 230 watts rms x6 at 4 ohms, and i dont even know wha tit does at 2 ohms, id hate to find out the hard way though :P













by the by, the carputer is on hold untill i sort things out.

 

alright, update time.

sorry id idnt update it for awhile, i was updating my other thread.









hooked the computer up to my tv to work on it while my cars stereo is down,so it'll be their for awhile :P





Ive been doing research out my ***, but alas, their is no magic solution to anything
right now im researching interfaces, the screen to be exact. ive desovered they do make flip out single din ones, ive found a couple. a single action spring loaded one, thats prown to problem. i also fund a nice motorized one, a little loud motor, and a skechy video i found of it i getting stuck while trying to open.
the unit i have in mind so far is this Model: GL701-NP/C/T - LILLIPUT.
the reason im becoming so dead set on this, is becasue I will be able to add a second dinn! which means i shoudl easily be able to fit a dvd rom down their, making this a lagit no dash mod build.

this is a demo with centrafuse 2.0, i will be running 3.5 or 4.0, ive yet to decide on which GPS software to use, i might go with the garmen software i got ahold of, its nice, simple becasue its the same layout we all know and love from garmen, but with some extra goodies, very stable. ive yet to get the key to work though on mine on my carputer, i had the guy set it up on my computer to show me but he hasnt gotten back to me about helping me set it up. anyways heres the video, their were other prospecting units ive done wayyyyyyyyyyy more research than this single unit but this is what ive come down to thus far. ive yet to figuire out if a dvd rom is the size of a single dinn or not, thats on the to do list though but my main research says a single dinn is 2"x7", a dvd standard computer dinn is 6 3\4" and by 1 3\4" which should be torughly the size left after youf it the cut out for a normal dash kit. again, looking into it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ZreOzoCfg]CarPC

if you have experience or are interested in getting involved, feel free to post your thoughts your contact me to spit ball. this is a very exciting project for me Im very excited to get this ball rolling. i have allot of it mapped out thus far.

 

just some more pictures of the build

 

sweet! i have heard good things about that leviathon amp. also the carputer is looking sick! i think i saw your forsale thread.. and you decided to do only 1 18?

 

indeed i did. well this is the situation right now, i was gonna switch amps and go with something different, but in the end im going with the same zed amps. i was gonna change, but im already in with this 6 channel why start over with the amps when im 80% done. im working on a deal for a trade on the single channel and a 4 channel (to which i dont need but he doesnt have cash and its a beautiful amp) i am gonna trade my deck and something else yet to be determined, hes not made up his mind yet. i;'m hoping he does the deal.

any7ways the new desition ive made is to run my car over to a local shop that im pretty tight with that does world class work, im gfonna talk to them about doing my false floor and stuff. i'll probobly just have them do the labor, i wanna still do all my termanations. plus why pay somebody to do something i know how to do. the thing is i want this false floor to look good. and i dont believe my skillset is quite their to get it looking like i want it to, its embarising to admit defete but ive been working on it and ive bee stuck on the plan for months. IF they feel they can work both 18's into their with out any issues, than we shall do so, in fact they might be more able to do both 18's far better than i could if i ever tried to shoehorn them in their.