[tullamore]

I saw the insides of a new Dual 800 Quicksilver and it looked a lot different than mine. I thought it would be neet to post pictures of our motherboards to show how they have changed through the versions.

Mine is a Dual 500MHz (Gigabit Ethernet)

[zac4mac]

Yup, looks just like mine except I have one less PCI card and one of my RAM stix is taller than the other three.
Radeon AGP, Orion PCI, OEM SCSI card.
1- PC-133/256MB, 3- PC-100 2-2-2/256MB

Zack

[Dogma]

Exactly the same MB except mine has much less dust. I mean, get some compressed air dude!

[SpeadFreek]

So, Tullamore...
Where'd you see the insides that look different? And did you get a pic of them?

*stands up*

I have a dual 800, and I can grab the pics of it's guts too

It's different alright, the heatsink is at what would be, from his picture, the bottom right, and it's really shaped like a brick.

A black squarish duct has a fan it it, which blows air through that heatsink..

The ram is almost in the same place, but theres' no USB controller (little heatsink), this is where the famous slowdown comes with using certain USB periphials, something I still havent noticed.

I'll post my motherboard's pics in a few mins.

My Computer/Motherboard/You-Know-What
(this is a few pictures, be prepared

Let's get started:


Now for the top-down picture (like the other)


Full MB View:


Look how big the Heatsink is:


Seeya: (yeah.. the apple techs have seen that one before)

*stands up*

I have a dual 800, and I can grab the pics of it's guts too

It's different alright, the heatsink is at what would be, from his picture, the bottom right, and it's really shaped like a brick.

A black squarish duct has a fan it it, which blows air through that heatsink..

The ram is almost in the same place, but theres' no USB controller (little heatsink), this is where the famous slowdown comes with using certain USB periphials, something I still havent noticed.

I'll post my motherboard's pics in a few mins.

[malson]

I'm not quite as photo happy as Mr. JoePC but I decided to post some more pictures from the Dual 800. I hope that these will be a little bit clearer. Here we go...

Yeah

My camera sucks.. note it's a PC quickcam VC USB.. rofl.. don't know how I got my mac to do it under OS X (USB driver for OS9, really)

Now where'd that little chicken go?

I may not have good pictures, but do you have a 22" cinema display? hehe I'll be getting a digicam later, so there!

btw: nice pics

[iNeusch]

Do you want a pict of my G4/350?

[tullamore]

I would kinda worry having my RAM so close to that huge heat sink!

[kbbaucom]

Originally posted by <JoePC2001>:
<STRONG>The ram is almost in the same place, but theres' no USB controller (little heatsink), this is where the famous slowdown comes with using certain USB periphials, something I still havent noticed.</STRONG>

The small heatsink on the motherboard is for the gigabit ethernet, not USB. I believe it's on the bottom of the motherboard on the Quicksilvers.

[tullamore]

I don't see that anywhere, might it be under that huge daughter card?

If the G4 heatsink gets REALLY hot, the ram can overheat, the damn thing is almost touching the heatsink..

I'm going to move my ram sticks down to the bottom 2 slots because of that, it might be why this machine freezes so often, but it is true, that thing is crowded

Especially because one side of the motherboard is jam packed, one side is almost empty

Where do you get a pretty anime girl pic like that? :/ I want one!

[tullamore]

They should have left the ram on the left side and just turned it the other direction.

Does your heatsink really get that hot, mine stays really cool.

[JoeG4]

Yeah, to me I think something's wrong.. when I'm crunching in RC5, it'll get VERY hot (it almost hurts to touch)

Anyone know a good temp monitor I can get?