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A friend of mine wants to build a in car PC for various tasks such as reading the in car sensors and running satnav, while also being able to say run winamp to play music using his car speakers. He has also found a cable to run from the cars dataport to a USB port on a PC and some software to show the car info. He would just like to see if anyone else has done this here and could give him some advice and tips, also what components to get as me and him have only ever built normal desktops and not and SFF builds.
We were not sure about the PSU as cars power is DC while normal PC PSU's run off AC. Would the tasks he wants to run need an atom or can we get away with a really cheap CPU running a nlited XP? He just upgraded to a vertex in his PC recently so has an old core series SSD to use. Was going to be into the glove box as thats where all the current wiring for his sound system is going to.