camper van computer

[butchandmungo]

Hi

This is my first post on the forum but it has been a great resource over the years so many thanks for that!

Anyway i am intending on building a diy camper in a big transit (or similar) van later this year. This will have 12 vdc battery powering everything and solar panels to charge batteries.

I am looking for the ultimate efficiency gaming system to put into said van. Some of the games i play are; heavily modded starsector, total war: warhammer 3, battle brothers, mount and blade and underrail (and underrail 2 when that comes out!)

My initial idea is to run a 8500g on intergrated graphic on a b650 board, with the nicest ram i can find for a reasonable price. Psu will be a pico psu wired into a voltage regulator, which in turn will connect directly to the battery. This avoids any dc-ac-dc conversion losses.

Cpu will be undervolted as far as possible and ram with as tight timings as possible. These are something i would need to learn, but i have started watching buildzoid on yt to start that process.

Is this sensible or does anyone have a better idea to maximise performance. Any suggestions are very appreciated as its surprisingly difficult to find useful information about this particular use case online.

Many thanks

 

[Waldorf]

cant talk about m/igpu stuff (havent used/build with it in 10y), but seen it so many times (with different things) that the (next) bigger/faster thing would do better.
like me driving a 100 HP golf using 10l/100km while my fathers E55 with a 5L V8 would use the same amount at similar speed (hwy, 160-200km/h).
e.g. maybe 8700 and not have to use 100% resource to do tasks, instead of "maxing out" the 8500.

for the camper, havent looked at campers for a while, but maybe check VW/MB stuff with AWD? can come in handy when moving around.
many of the more newer/powerful solar stuff i have seen online seems to use 24V, maybe look into that as well.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

I hate laptops.

The best they can ever be is mediocre conerning raw compute.

But try as you might, you can´t beat the new gen laptops concerning efficiency.

Buy a new latop and concentrate more on fixtures than DIYing some power guzzling mishmash.

 

[Waldorf]

@Carlyle2020hs
except many with campers have tvs, so a laptop would mean wasting money on a screen you dont really need.
money that could go towards "better/more" hw or other things.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

You mean to tell me that a movable screen does not fit the theme of a movable home?

So you can park near a river but you cannot work outside near the stream on a big stone during a hot summers day?

Why bother with mobility if that´s not truly on the menue?