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Mac Pro taken apart!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 / Disassemblies
Jacob and company take the new Mac Pro down to its unmentionables.
Mac Pro Box
Mac Pro Accessories - Not much has changed here, obviously. Looks like we are back to the standard power plug, which should be good news for a lot of users.
Mac Pro Back - Nice dual gigabit ethernet ports, and the business end of a smokin
Mac Pro Front Ports
Two Drive Bays
Two Drive Bays Open
Mac Pro DVD-R Drive. It's a Sony.
Fan unit
Fan Unit again...
Mac Pro - Fans removed!
The Lair of the Processor!
Deeper into the Lair of the Processor!
A truly gigantic heat sink.
Sinks in place.
Processor and stamp.
Even more processor lair.
For some scale.
The drive sleds.
The stock hard disk is a Seagate 7200rpm 250GB.
Da Mo-Bo
The PCI Slots.
Independent Power Cords.
Sliding in the RAM riser...The RAM riser card ready to go back into its slot, illustrating how it slides in on rails.
Sliding in the RAM riser...The RAM riser card ready to go back into its slot, illustrating how it slides in on rails.
The RAM Riser Cards. There is an enormous amount of room for RAM in this system, up to 16GB if desired.
RAM Riser Cards in the Case.
The RAM Label
The RAM Heat Sinks. The sinks are almost the size of some processor heat sinks.
The optical drive sleds.
The hard drive lock light glows orange. All 4 hard drive trays lock into place when the back latch is closed, indicated by the orange indicator. All 4 trays are included. Also, note the power supply is now found at the top of the unit, seen in the upper right of the photo.
Unlocking the hard drives. Same picture as above, but hard drives are unlocked.
The beauty within. Internal PCI-E slots shown with the high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, and two dual-link DVI ports. Notes from the field indicate that the new machine
The Side Case Open.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:00 am
Great pics guys!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:15 am
I DEMAND TO SEE AN IMMERSION COOLED MACPRO!!!
(Transformer oil or perflurocarbon, cooking oil is ghetto)
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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April 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I have a question! The 3rd picture from the top…I have a cord that plugs into the wider slot on the left..it has 4 cords coming from that cord..3 of those cords plug into somewhere but one doesnt..so im assuming im missing a piece but i have no idea what its called..the end of that cord looks similar to a USB but its got rounded edges..the people from the apple place have no idea what im talking about..any help would be awesome!
June 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am
@Seantae
It’s a firewire port.
Great article and nice pics!
August 21st, 2009 at 8:59 am
It’s actually just as likely to be an HDMI connection, given that it is meant to come from your HD monitor right?
(don’t yell at me if I’m wrong, I tend to avoid those overpriced macs :p )
November 28th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Is there a sticker or stamp anywhere on your MacPro stating where it was assembled?
My 2005 G5 was put together in California, a rare thing anymore. I want to order the MacPro but I’d be nice to know where it’s put together. Thanks for your help and your photos are first class!
April 7th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Take out the superdrives and give me another 2 or 3 pcie2 slots >:) (with crossfire or SLI this would b amazing :O)