Having trouble identifying the cpu on an iMac G3 motherboard

**newattitude** · 04-12-2015, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

ATi chip is the video card GPU
VLSI chip is an IC chip basically (integrated circuit)
Lucent chip is another Ic (integrated circuit) chip
CPU is on the bottom of these...yes I know WEIRD....and Motorola made them all I believe up until the deal with Intel happened and you could finally dual boot (that happened in 2005)...these are POWER PC chips...they are soldered onto the board. Send them to Ewasted or whomever and just let them know (separate it form the rest of the motherboards)....they generally pay a bit more for these type of motherboards.

any yes, the little yellow boxes are Tantalum...they can be the larger ones that are pictured and smaller almost square ones as well

My experience with those **** tings are the older apples like that are a PITA...the cases are WAY WAY overbuilt and are just tough to get into...way more work than should be needed.

Hope that clarifies and adds to what other have said above.

I just finished taking one apart, I started at 8:20 and just now finished to come here and ask if there was a CPU chip as well.

NA's take on imac's - ''Grrrrrrrr.....''

Lol

**Scrappah** · 04-12-2015, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by newattitude

I just finished taking one apart, I started at 8:20 and just now finished to come here and ask if there was a CPU chip as well.

NA's take on imac's - ''Grrrrrrrr.....''

Lol

BIG X2 !

#$@!&&^ Macs !

The easiest way i found for breaking them down was to go on-line and find the step by step dis-assembly instructions. The first few breakdowns are slow but once you get the knack of it they aren't all that bad. The trick is to focus on the bottom part where all the goodies are. There's some aluminum & copper up in the CRT assembly but you have to work for it. Then you're left with dealing with a CRT that's out of it's protective case. Maybe not worth the hassle ?

I tried breaking down the main board for the processor & the other goodies but it doesn't seem to be worth it. You might get more value from selling it whole.

**newattitude** · 04-13-2015, 03:17 AM

^^I did the same thing, went online!! When I have a CRT tube left open like that which is rare, I wrap newspaper around the top part of the tube and tape the heck out of it so its not as dangerous.