In Car PC Build, Which monitor?
 

Ok, what size monitor did you guys use on your DIY in car PC projects. I'm looking for something touchscreen and that will fit in my 95 4dr civic. Lastly;

Where did you guys mount em?

Any write-ups?

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Whatever monitor that came with my laptop

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grab a 7 inch touchscreen on ebay and mount it to the windshield when driving, floor when parked :y

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Go to www.xenarc.com

Awesome company and I can get them wholesale.

I've installed several with no probs.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Xenarc-700TSV-7-...QQcmdZViewItem

I had one and loved it. The price is cheap but it would be tough to find another screen that compares.

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Bastard, beat me by 6 seconds.

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Any monitor you buy will fit in your car. You're going to have to custom mount it regardless.

Read the forums at www.mp3car.com there is all the info you need there.

Their Lilliput 7" touchscreen is about $250 and is a favorite among members there. Make sure you get a touchscreen, or you will regret it later.

http://store.mp3car.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=27

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damn taht one for 250 is sweet

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you need to stop reading honda tuning, oh and hop of bamboo's dick too

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LOL

Here is a smoking case for using a Mini ITX mothe board and a CarPc Power Supply. No converters needed, and it has daughter board setups so you can use PCMCIA wireless cards with it. We are seriously considering building one of these for fun.

http://www.mini-box.com/VoomPC-Enclo...8&category=101

Craig

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www.newegg.com maybe?

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I've got an Innovatek LM-868, 7" touchscreen. It's where you go if you're a cheapass, they are almost half what the Xenarc/Lilliput units go for.

I can't say much about the higher end 7" units, but ALL of these have a native resolution of 800X480 which is NOT SUPPORTED by most video chipsets. I've played around with a bit of software called Powerstrip and gotten alright results on a $25 Asus vid card but it took a bit of tweaking, and other resolutions (other than native) the monitor claims to support were flaky and/or rastered. My Radeon X850 is the only thing that works well with the screen, and it does so at a variety of resolutions. For the price of a vid card (that needs extra physical space due to hatsinks and stuffs), and operating under the ASSumption that my problems are caused by a cheap touchscreen (meaning I may be right/wrong, so buyer beware), you are better off buying the higher end touchscreen.

I just picked up two Neoware e300 units on eGay - 600 Mhz VIA processor built into 15" display, PCMCIA slot, USB, boots from CF card, etc. Silly cheap, too, $44/per.

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Thanks guys! So the resolution on touch screens kinda sucks?

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No, the *native* resolution on 7" touchscreens *kinda* sucks. To get everything in correct proportion you have to run 800X480, which is a bit of an oddball deal. Most people run one of the higher resolutions that gets everything proportionally correct, and installs larger DPI fonts under Control Panel-->Display-->Advanced Settings so you can read the text. Some of the sli-ightly larger touchscreens support a more common resolution, and I saw a 7" in the link TT gave that has a 720X480 resolution which IIRC is a little more common than 800X480.

With the cheap vid cards (the ASUS card, and the one that comes bundled with old Intel i810 chipsets), I could run 640X480 fine but there was a little rastering in one area of the screen; lines got run together and made text appear clipped. With the X850 every resolution I threw at it looked superb. There is guaranteed to be an affordable video card (or integrated video card) that does a better job than the low end crap I have.

Blah, I'm techno-babbling. Only a few thousand ppl have run a 7" touchscreen successfully, and they love to talk about it. Hop on mp3car.com and see what combos of screens and vid cards people like. Research, y0, we suggest n00bs do it here, too. :y

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Here's my complete build posted on mp3car.com its a real good site for this kind of ----.

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=76383

8" liliput touchscreen. It will do 1024x768 no problem but I keep it at 800x600 so I can read ---- like HMT at a hotspot :)

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nice cruiser

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Now that ---- is HOT!!! :y

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what seats are those. they look good

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i used some generic 7" touch screen off ebay, i think it had a panasonic panel or maybe it was sharp. it worked good besides i had to use a custom resolution so it looked right/not distorted, u can get ones that fit in a normal cd player slot too that fold out manually or motorized