man i want one to...im going to school for information technology, buy im focusing on network security, if i buy what is needed someone should put it together for me fing02.gif

 

mwood if you're ever back in MI I could do it for you.

 

yeah the only time i will be back in MI is to visit...hopefully in 2010 i will be back to live...but i doubt it

 

Also, I got the necessary wires, heat shrink, expandable sleeving, and molex plugs/pins from this site:

http://www.action-electronics.com/

 

Just for reference if anyone goes with a Core 2 setup like mine, I finally found a low profile cooler to replace my ghetto fan (it started rattling lol):

Silverstone NT07-775
http://www.aerocooler.com/shop.cart?action...rod_id=FANSS775

I just installed it, fits nicely and is pretty quiet.

 

Hey guys, good job to all who have done this! I myself am an experienced pc and mac technician, and have had many plans to assemble a carpc. I may do this with my newly purchased tib. I did have a question though. I know that hard drives, due to the nature of how they operate, are vulnerable to situations where it is in a mobile body(i.e. laptops). Has anybody had any problems yet about this? For example, driving down the road, playing mp3's and BOOM, you hit a big pothole! Then you'll have a scratch on your plate, and corrupted data, and a possible kernel failure(BSOD). If so, a SSD drive would be a solution, only they can be more expensive than a traditional hard disk.

 

I have been runing my carpc for a while and never had a problem. And roads here are crap.

I think the hard disks park their heads when they're idle, and it will be idle most of the time. When playing mp3s, the time to read the file is so small compared to the play time..

Also, in my case the hard disk is mounted on some mobile springs (case was designed like that), that probably helps too. And the hard disk is a 2.5" laptop disk, probably designed to withstand physical shocks better than a regular hard disk.

 

this issue has been debated back and forth a TON on mp3car.com and the general consensus is that laptop hard drives can handle just about anything that your car can. they are designed for some pretty rough impacts.

there are some hard drives designed for ultra rugged use though. i don't think they are worth the cost. you're just going to have mp3s on your carpc, and you should have those backed up elsewhere. just get a new hard drive on the extremely rare case where the hard drive is damaged from shock.

 

If you're just going to play mp3 on your carpc, you might as well just buy a radio with a USB port and load a bunch of songs on a portable hard drive. Thats what I'm doing at least

 

Nobody said you were ONLY doing that, but that's what the computer will be doing most of the time.

Plus good luck navigating a huge collection of music using a regular radio with a couple of buttons.