Power Mac G4 Quicksilver
The G4 Quicksilver came in 533MHz, 667MHz, 733MHz, 800MHz, 933MHz, And 1.0GHz speeds.
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver Teardown
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The Powermac G4 "Quicksilver," The 2nd Major revision to Apple's Powermac G4 Series. It was released in 2001, and came with a 533Mhz-Dual 1Ghz Motorola PowerPC G4 CPU. This Supported up to 1.5GB of PC133 133Mhz Ram. This computer looks neat, and was the last apple computer to incoorperate a possible ZIP Drive. It had AGP Graphics with a NVIDIA GeForce 2MX Mac Edition standard. This is incredibly silent compared to the G4 MDD and the G4 Graphite. Available CPU Speeds: 533Mhz, 667Mhz, 733Mhz, 800Mhz, 933Mhz, And 1.0Ghz . Most clock speeds were available in both single and dual configurations. This was the first Mac to reach 1.0Ghz. No wonder they call it the "Quicksilver."
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AirPort Card:
Remove the AirPort Antenna by pulling it out of the back of the card
Grab the plastic tab, and pull the card out.
This is the same PCMCIA 802.11b Airport card found in every mac from 2000-2004, it is only wireless "B" so you only get 11Mbps, but that is enough for web browsing.
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CPU:
This Computer boasts a 733Mhz Motorola PowerPC G4 CPU, though not fast enough to run leopard natively, it runs 10.4.11 "Tiger" fine.
It has a 733Mhz Motorola PowerPC 7450 (G4).
Start by removing the heatsink clamps with a flathead screwdriver.
Do the same for the other side.
Then Lift off the heatsink.
This will reveal the CPU.
Remove these screws.
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Once those screws are removed, carefully remove the CPU.
This is apple's 300-Pin connector, it is found on this Mac, and MDD's (This cpu won't work in an MDD) and similar to the one in PowerMac G5's.
This connector is incredibly hard to remove, because of the way it connects, it is also very hard to remove without damaging it, if you don't pull it straight up, you will, most likely damage it.
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