Project: Commodore P.E.T. 2011 - Problems! 5/3

[TheGreatSatan]

I don't want to mess with the keyboard, because when I did it with Dumb Terminal, I totally destroyed the whole thing and had to scratch it.

Wait.

Are you going to leave power stealth?

You mean the Power Button?

[TheGreatSatan]

The first thing I want to do is address the screen. I just so happen to have a 7 inch LCD that I've had lying around for at least two years now. I thought it was a touch screen, because it has a serial connection, but now I'm not so sure.

Which I will mount like so

[TheGreatSatan]

Update:

I'm modifying the specs to:

AMD Phenom X6 1090T
MSI 870A-G54
6GB DDR3-1333
64GB SSD
1TB Western Digital
650 Watt XFX PSU
Slim DVD


I'm not quite sure about the video card just yet....

Here's what I have so far.

My heatsink will be the Big Shuriken

Except I'll be changing out the fan with the Ultra Kaze 3000!

Here's my awesome XFX 650 watt modular PSU

And my Asus slim External drive

Now for some progress.

I want to plan out the air flow through the case. This is how it looks through the screen.

It looks like a perfect place for a 140mm fan.

The back of the monitor already has venting

So I'm putting a 120mm fan there. On the inside, of course

The air will come in here via the 120mm fan, get forced down by the 140mm fan and then blown down on to the heatsink by the Kaze. The distance from the back fan to the heatsink fan is really only several inches. The force from the Kaze 3000 will easily push any warm air out of the factory cut holes around the back.

[SXRguyinMA]

how about a radeon 6660?

[TheGreatSatan]

YES!

No, I'm thinking 6850 or 6950 or something....

[TheMainMan]

how about a radeon 6660?

I actually had to google this to see if it existed, bummer it doesn't TGS would have had to buy them all up!

I'm super stoked to see how this turns out, the Commodore is significantly older than I am.

[TheGreatSatan]

I was going to use my 3870 X2 which is still better than the modern 5770, but no DX11 support. Once the project is complete, I'm taking it to work at Micro Center where they plan to display it. It will be connected to a 42 inch LCD that hangs over my department playing 3DMark11. That's why I need a modern video card with some beef to it.

I found another problem. With Eyefinity technology can you connect two monitors with totally different resolutions? The small screen I want to use for this mod only supports up to 1120x768. My home moitor is 22 inches and the monitor at work will be 42 inches that will probably run at 1920x1080.

Can these two resolutions be put out at the same time over two monitors? Otherwise, I may have to go back to the LCD photo frame idea instead.

[TheMainMan]

I may be corrected on this but I believe this has been possible for a long time. My parents had a Raedon 7000 that output to dual VGAs and they had two different resolution CRT monitors running in an extended desktop. As far as I can figure Eyefinity is exactly that for everything outside of gaming. But as I said, I might be wrong.

[TheGreatSatan]

I wonder if then I could run 3DMark11 on the big screen only and leave the desktop on the small screen? Maybe I'll just do the photo frame thing anyway to avoid the annoyance of all of this.

[Munty]

You can definitely run different resolutions on different monitors, I did so on a pretty old graphics card 4-5 years ago so you'll have no problem if you're using modern technology.