[diamondxl]

building a car pc and i got a few questions:

1) anyone know of any good lcds that are thin. i need 2 rediculously thin lcds that have good quality

2) anyone know about power supply related things? i need some adapter that allows me to charge a 2nd car battery that i'll be storing in the trunk to power the comp. also, is there any better way of powering the comp than using a 12vdc car battery w/ a 300 watt power inverter to go to 120 vac and then using the comps power supply to go back down to 12vdc. im learnin stuff daily in my electrical engineering classes, but i dont know enuff yet for it.

3) sound cards...any recommendations? sound quality is of utmost importance

4) graphics cards...i need something with rca or svideo outs, altho im wondering whether it'd be better to get something w/ a digital signal and use some sort of laptop screen interface (therefore gettin better quality)

also. since i'll be recording music videos n such so i can play em in the car, anyone got any recommendations on affordable capture cards?

 

[diamondxl]

thanx a million for all this badass info. for clarification, im also referring to color lcds (gonna be playin divx/dvds). i found out about the cajun project and more amusingly, the modchip'd xbox (omg, that'd be so funny to be runnin an xbox media system in my car)

the bottom line is that i havent set my mind on anything except the functionality. once i get the hardware aspect of the system done, the software will be a joke.