Having trouble identifying the cpu on an iMac G3 motherboard

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