The Dell Dimension 3000 Disassembly

Here we have the PC: a 2004 Dell Dimension 3000

Here is what we saw taking off the back panel- it's gotten very dusty
after 10 years of use

Since this is an older model desktop, there's a lot of older technology

Here's an example of an older piece of technology- those white
"ribbon" 40-wire connections are for a PATA hard drive- which aren't
used anymore. The modern SATA hard drives have a much smaller,
single cable.

Here are the sticks of RAM we pulled from the PC-
adding up to only a total of half a gigabyte.

Heres a network adapter we pulled from a PCI slot-
which I talked about in my last blog post.

Just to identify some parts- those long white strips
on the top left are PCI ports. The long black strips on
the bottom right are RAM slots. The white square on the
top right is the CPU.

Here is the fan and the main power supply for the PC.

Here is the CPU for this desktop. You can identify
this model of CPU as a Pin Grid Array (PGA) from
all of the tiny pins sticking out the back

The front side of the CPU. the white blob on the
front is the cooling paste.

Another computer- my partners. The difference 10
years can make is astounding. Those blue sticks
are armored DDR3 SDRAM sticks- each with the same
amount of memory as 16 of the Dell's RAM sticks.