All looks great, but you should really look into an audio interface. Even the cheaper M-Audio's will blow that out of the water!
Finally getting around to it!
After years of desiring what I like to believe is the be-all, end-all solution for in-car entertainment, I'm finally getting around to building my CarPC. I'll be regularly loading information on this build at www.fb.com/groups/carputer so if you're on Facebook, get all over it.
Here's what I'm working with:
Monitor: Chalkboard Electronics 7" Capacitive Multi-Touch
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85N Phoenix-WIFI
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690
Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster Z
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB
Storage: Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP240G4R5 SSD
Power Supply: M4-ATX
Keyboard/Mouse: Griffin PowerMate/Mini Wireless Keyboard
GPS: Unknown at this time
Frontend: Centrafuse
Other:
MJS USB-LED-1
Undecided External CD Drive
Front and rearview cameras converted to digital via Easycap USB
8ch 12v USB relay board
Rooftop GPS/Cellular/PCS/WiFi antenna GPS 2400
Dualshock 4 for emulators
This is all sitting at an address in the States waiting to be shipped here to New Zealand. I'll have photos and a fully-fledged build log when everything arrives. I'll periodically be updating this thread as it comes.
Here's what I'm working with:
Monitor: Chalkboard Electronics 7" Capacitive Multi-Touch
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85N Phoenix-WIFI
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690
Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster Z
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB
Storage: Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP240G4R5 SSD
Power Supply: M4-ATX
Keyboard/Mouse: Griffin PowerMate/Mini Wireless Keyboard
GPS: Unknown at this time
Frontend: Centrafuse
Other:
MJS USB-LED-1
Undecided External CD Drive
Front and rearview cameras converted to digital via Easycap USB
8ch 12v USB relay board
Rooftop GPS/Cellular/PCS/WiFi antenna GPS 2400
Dualshock 4 for emulators
This is all sitting at an address in the States waiting to be shipped here to New Zealand. I'll have photos and a fully-fledged build log when everything arrives. I'll periodically be updating this thread as it comes.
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It's the number of OUTPUTS you will gain though. If you are running something like the Alpine H800 (which to me defeats the purpose of a carpc) then you would not notice a difference!Everyone seems to say go with an external DAC of sorts. I'm having an incredibly difficult time justifying one as most of my music is ripped MP3. I do play FLAC, but not often enough to justify going the extra mile for that last 1%. I do, however, need something that is 5.1 capable as I am doing in-car surround sound. I guess I'm just wondering if it is worth it.
Focusrite's are extremely well made for the price.
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