http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...884&CatId=4618

Looks to me like all I need to get to have it working is a, hard drive, a ram chip and a few cables. Please correct me if I'm wrong

 

I forgot a power supply but I'll need a special one for the application it's going in

 

You'll need an Operating System.

 

I dunno about that Atom being a real computer... I think you'd want something more powerful... but in any case...

This is the checklist when I build a computer:

Case
Power supply
Case Prep (wire looming, removing extra covers and such... helps to know where things go, cases can change.)
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
Hard Drive(s)
Optical(s)
Other drive(s) (if applicable)
Video card (if applicable)
Sound card (if applicable)
Modem (if applicable)
Other cards (if applicable)
Origami wires and cables (I hate tie wraps.)
Fire it up
Fix Bios
Install operating system
fully test
Ship to customer.

So using that list, you got the basics, and can figure out what you don't have.

Back when could build a computer in 10 minutes or so, and then the operating system took a bit... but if I had a run of them I did the first one, the copied the system to the other drives and the systems then took only 20 minutes.

/Them were the days.

 

I'm considering the atom because it's small, light, it has 10 USB ports, and shouldn't need much power. I'm gonna go this route for my carputer, so I won't need a super computer for that. As far as a disk drive and OS I'm gonna put a slot load dvd either under touch screen or hide it in the console. The OS is gonna be Win XP media center. I'm planning on a 60 gig HDD and 4 gigs RAM.

 

The Atom looks like a great little computer. I might have to try one of those. You will need a case, power supply, memory and operating system.

 

Oh a carputer. Well, that'd be way different, good on ya, go for it!

/gives me ideas for a motoputer, or cycleputer...

 

http://www.virtualvillage.com/pw-200..._medium=shcomp

would that power supply work or could somebody recommend one