Console pr0n - nekkid sexi hardware?

[Grall]

Is there some site where one can gaze upon the innards of modern consoles, photographed nice and professionally in high-res with lots of details of the various thingamabobs inside etc? Including controllers, preferably...

You see, I'd hate to have to open up my new Gamecube just to sate my own curiosity.

It's a very nicely done piece of hardware by the way. I knew it was small, but seeing it - holding it in my hands actually - really tells how REDICULOUSLY small that thing is! It is an extremely impressive piece of hardware, and to think it's all cooled by that tiny fan with hardly any flow at all... Okay, so the air coming out of it IS rather hot, but still. It is impressive. Of course, PSU is external, which saves size (and a bit of heat), but it's still damn impressive. Especially with all the expansion capabilities, etc.

Wish Nintendo had made the Gameboy Player use the second serial port though, leaving the high-speed port open for a harddrive...

Oh by the way... Shots of PS2s taken apart would also be cool. Hehe! Preferably of recent revisions of the hardware since things have changed a bit on the inside since the introduction. That supercool heatpipe-equipped diecast fin/pin heatsink isn't present in the newest version.


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[Berserk]

Xbox inside:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3089,00.html


GameCube:

http://www.gamesx.com/misctech/gamecube.htm


PS2:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ps22.htm

 

[McFly]

I give the inside of GC a 9 out of 10 and the X-Box a 2 out of ten.

I saw the inside of a PS2, so I give her a 6

Fredi

 

[Mark Cicero]

To quote my girlfriend:
Its a bunch of computery bits with a drive sticking out. It's not all that impressive.


Sigh.
I wonder if this is just a guy thing.

 

[nonamer]

Interesting, the GC's disc drive looks exactly like a regular CD or DVD drive. Nothing special there other than it's been modified to read the smaller discs.

 

[Tagrineth]

Interesting, the GC's disc drive looks exactly like a regular CD or DVD drive. Nothing special there other than it's been modified to read the smaller discs.

What were you expecting it to look like? A ZIP drive?

 

[darkblu]

the dreamcast is worth looking into too

 

[DeathKnight]

Here are better pictures of the Xbox innards.

 

[jvd]

just an fyi , the dreamcast also has a normal heatsink fan on the chips in later versions .

 

[nonamer]

Interesting, the GC's disc drive looks exactly like a regular CD or DVD drive. Nothing special there other than it's been modified to read the smaller discs.

What were you expecting it to look like? A ZIP drive?

Look at the track for the laser. It can read a full 12cm disc. That and other things is why I think it looks just like a regular DVD drive.

 

[Grall]

The drive mechanics is probably the same as that Japan-only DVD-player version of the cube...

Anyway, without an extensive operation on the plastic casing, you wouldn't fit a 12cm disc into the tray anyway so what does it matter if the laser can travel that far or not?


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[darkblu]

just an fyi , the dreamcast also has a normal heatsink fan on the chips in later versions .

curious, do you have any pictures to show that? if that's the case then sega may have re-designed the clever heat absorbing and conducting system they used to have.. /wondering/

 

[jvd]

just an fyi , the dreamcast also has a normal heatsink fan on the chips in later versions .

curious, do you have any pictures to show that? if that's the case then sega may have re-designed the clever heat absorbing and conducting system they used to have.. /wondering/

I don't have any pics of it but i've done my fair share of modding. I will take apart my dc and check it. I think they moved to a fan heatsink when the went to the next micron process.