Ok let me start by say my jod as of current is selling car audio. I was at work the other day it was slow so i got to brain storming on my true pasion what can I do to make my computer cooler than yours. Came up with a car theme so mod one car cd player. Don't laugh the 12 volts is already there it has preouts an aux so you could create a loop to the sound card for I/O purposes. Next an ash tray with working 12 volt cigaret lighter I don't smoke but I could use it to charge a cell phone and or a radar detector. Why not and do a gauge cluster and us the fan leads to supply the tack info. Well Insaine mod or just insaine has anyone seen this before?

Um, can you please clean up your spelling? I am having a hard time following this.

Um, guage pods are nothing new. 12V cigarette plugs are nothing new. There care companies that produce audio tape decks for PCs, so having a stereo from a car in there isn't that much different.

Sounds like you took a quick look at ThinkGeek.Com and then posted. Might look cool, but eh.

yeah, heard of everything except the car cd player before, and that might not work as the psu in a computer is a switching power supply and it keeps somewhat of an alternating current ripple on all the rails, well, it would work, but the audio quality might not be all that great because of the ac ripple, especially considering a car cd player is designed to run on a clean 12vdc line and i doubt it has anything to electronincs (capacitors i believe help clean up dc lines, not too sure). you might not notice unless you are an audiophile though, its worth a try if you want. but i would just try modding a computer as a jukebox for your car as an insane mod. wouldnt be insane as its been done plenty of times before, but if you did it nicely it could be cool.

why couldnt u just plug this all into a POWER OUTLET, and leave your computer, for computer purposes.......

i think that would be ace... like the whole centre of the dash as the front of your computer! hehe, and you could have an electric antenna too

Those mods are more insane than insaine...

wtf psu rails dont ripple o.O

Its clean dc, not ac current.

well, they have enough of a ripple that you cannot use amateur radio equipment on them even though the amp runs off 12vdc. it messes with it somewhere. heres a link that explains it, basically, the dc lines on a switching power supply are noisy, or have an ac ripple as i have been told, which is not good for analog use according to this link, and another amateur radio operator.

http://www.epanorama.net/links/psu_switching.html

its only the last couple lines that are real important. i dont understand half of it. in all reality he prolly wont notice a difference unless he is an audiophile, but if he was he wouldnt be using a car cd player to change the signal from digital to analog, go from the preouts to go back into a computer, convert from analog into digital again and then send the signal to a set of speakers. too many steps to lose too much signal. for a purist that is.

Uhm, I have a car stereo hooked up to an OLD PSU in my shop and it works great, the dc comming out of the PSU is preaty solid pure dc since computer components need a pure solid as possible dc current to operate properly.

mobo's have tons of capacitors on them to clean the power signal, and its digital, signal on, signal off. its not a situation where you decode the signal by the difference in amplitude or in frequency of a transmitted signal like analog is. but now that i think about it, i guess it would only be really sensitive analog equipment that would be bothered by a noisy signal. so, since you said your cd player runs just fine and i assume it sounds good too off that psu (no buzz or anything) it doesnt matter that its a switching power supply. i thought it might because of the fact that some equipment shouldnt be ran off of it, i dont know why i considered a cd player sensitive analog equipment.

so go for it, if you still want to. prolly wont sound any different than a pure dc signal.

p.s. maybe i didnt say this earlier, its a very slight ac ripple, between 20khz and 1mhz. above the range of human hearing.

The caps on the mother board don't matter because the power would come from the psu. I have put a monitor on the 12 volt line I get a constant stable power of 11.84 no spikes so the power is clean. I think a good power supple helps with the clean power thing. The desk top case that sits flat will be what I am using or maybe a rack case so it looks like a dash board.