Apple's Mac Pro - A True PowerMac Successor
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 16, 2006 12:27 PM EST- Posted in
- Mac
The grey cover to the left of the chassis is actually the fan assembly, it features two 120mm fans designed to cool the CPUs and the rest of the chassis. There is another fan located near the power supply at the top of the case that is not visible.
To remove the fan assembly you need to remove the CPU heatsink cover to the right of it. To remove the heatsink cover you need to remove the memory cage, and to remove it you need to remove two screws at the base of the memory cage. Unfortunately, neither one of the screws wanted to move without also turning the metal standoff below it (a problem all DIYers have run into at some point).
There's not enough room between the base of the memory cage and the bottom of the case to get pliers in to hold the standoff while we unscrew the screw, so we were stuck. We tried removing the screws with standoffs attached but we could not apply enough torque without stripping the screws and thus had to find another solution.
Luckily there was enough play in the mounting of the memory cage that we could slide it back enough to unlatch the heatsink cover and remove it. Amazingly enough we could do so without breaking any of the latches.
With the heatsink cover removed, we could pull out the fan assembly (a flexible putty knife helps here to pry the fan assembly away from the front of the case while you pull it out).
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plinden - Saturday, August 19, 2006 - link
No point in arguing with this guy - he's shown just how much he knows about the subject. How could someone regularly read AnandTech and not know about EFI? And then profess to have confused it with some obscure mobo manufacturer?Oddly enough, I can't find any motherboards for sale manufactured by a company called EFI - either it's very obscure or he's making it up. I wonder which one it is?
michael2k - Friday, August 18, 2006 - link
EFI isn't a manufacturer, it stands for "Extensible Firmware Interface", see the link in the other post.Lian Li had an aluminum case first, but Apple's design was COPIED by Lian Li. Read the Anandtech article in which half the comments for the case review claim "G5 ripoff".
plinden - Friday, August 18, 2006 - link
I laughed out loud at this. You're absolutely right, EFI is no DFI or ASUS, not even close.
You've just proved you know fuck all about this. I suggest you read up on EFI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_I...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_I... before posting about this in the future.
I'm not going to tell you makes the Mac motherboards. I'll leave that up to you to research.
Petoschka - Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - link
Well, my Junk Pro from early 2008 is still running.pervisanathema - Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - link
I want one. :otakeshi7 - Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - link
Just a small correction on page 2: The Power Mac G5 PCI-E also has 3 USB 2.0 ports on the rear panel.