kraaazymike

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General question that I hope doesnt come off sounding dumb but, how do you hook up a hu reciever and the car speakers to a mother board? Ive always wondered about this. orrr does the CarPC act as an aux unit to the hu and everything plays off of the hu? or do you guys even have a hu?

silversweetZ

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Try www.mp3car.com this place will answer all your questions!!

-Travis

shouldaboughttheZ

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you will not need a hu in a car pc set up.

Luna

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well you can do it one of two ways. you can keep your head unit and have the CarPC input to the aux like you said. or you can have the PC output to amps which will power the speakers. I plan on doing the latter because i dont want a head unit anymore

kraaazymike

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ohh ok thanks guys. And Luna, I totally forgot that you could hook up RCAs to some sound cards (Im on an Mac mini and haven't putzed with a computer in years)

Luna

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even those without RCA outputs you can just use the mini jack and get an adapter from radio shack , I have been doing that from my computers to my stereo for years (although sometimes you get a ground loop buzz)

Snootch

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I don't really need a head unit anymore because:
1- I don't use CD's (I upload MP3's from my home computer to the 250Gb drive in the car using a thumb drive.
2- Don't need FM radio (Hated the 80% commercials-20% music, and have XM now)
3- Most all integrated sound on newer motherboards is quite good, If you're really picky about sound quality, get an Audigy PCI sound card.

kraaazymike

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I honestly considered doing this 100% until I found out you have to relocate the HVAC to the glovebox I'm adjusting that thing every 30 feet, im finicky. Ive been sitting here thinking where else to move it to, but its terribly limited...

Akuma

put the HVAC in the center console... thats where i plan to put it when I do my PC.

Snootch

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You only have to relocate them if you are using an 8" screen. use a 7" and it will barely fit without re-locating the controls.

kraaazymike

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really? thats very interesting news to me wait a minute, if you refer to my other thread about satellite recievers (here) we talk about shutting down computers. would you have to shut down the computer manually before turning off the car or does it not matter?

SMOKINV8

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You really should go look at the FAQ on mp3car.com. It addresses every question you've asked so far, as well as a bunch that you haven't thought of yet.

Snootch

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Two companies, Mini-box.com and Opus Solutions, sell 12vdc ATX computer power supplies with intelligent shut-down controllers. I use a M1-ATX from mini-box. It cost me about $80. I suggest you check out the forums over at MP3car.com. I lurked there for about six months before posting a little, then built my system. Any question you have has probably been asked before. Check it out.

kraaazymike

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ok ok you guys talked me into it. I now have a new place to lurk around the internet while im at "work." You guys have been very helpful

Zymosis

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I have been getting more and more interested in this idea by the day. I keep seeing threads on it and reading up. Now I have somewhere else to gain knowledge before I build my project. Thanks fellas

Scotty562

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My only question is how you hook the pc audio up directly to the monsoon amp (no headunit.)

Honda Hunter

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Does anyone sell a complete kit with EVERYTHING needed?

dogger

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scotty using the monsoon in a carpc isn't a very good option. could be done but i wouldn't recommend it.
honda I only heard of one company offering a complete set up but it was very very expensive. the guy's doing this set up are designing and building them themself. as suggested you should look at mp3 site.

I know most of you guys arn't using fm anymore but I was wondering have any of you guy's tried a fm tuner card yet in your system's. I'm building one right now that I'm adding a card into it just to see how it will turn out. didn't cost me much to add so it's not a lost to me if it doesn't work well.

Snootch

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I think someone over in the MP3car.com forums is building/selling a USB FM tuner solution. I think if I ever feel like having FM radio again, i'd do that. Since I have 21.6Gb of MP3's; if I listened to my collection non-stop, I think I wouldn't hear a repeat song for at least a week

Snootch

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The MP3car.com store sells pre-built systems. All you have to do is install software and set it up: http://store.mp3car.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=25