So I took apart the Dell last weekend (56k beware)
Took it apart to clean out the 3rd heatsink and fan assembly, which is not externally accessible, and because I wanted to try a much slower CPU in it (I'm thinking about buying a mobile CPU for it, and the slower CPU I was going to put in it has about the same power requirements and heat output that the mobile I'm looking at does... unfortunately the slower CPU didn't work), AND because I've been dying to tear it apart since I got it anyhow.
The first two thumbnails are what it would look like if you pulled the LCD, keyboard, and wrist rest, then reinstalled the keyboard bracket (has to be uninstalled to get the wrist rest off). So basically it's what it'd look like if you could look into the laptop with it assembled. The first pic has the DVD/CD-RW drive installed, the second one has it removed, showing just the corner of the hard drive underneath it.
Then a partially disassembled pic with the bracket out, all the drives out, and the two externally accessible fans out.
After that, there's a pic of the top of the motherboard in its magnesium chassis (which fits inside the plastic outer shell) and one of the bottom in the chassis.
Finally there are a couple of the top and bottom of the motherboard itself, removed from the chassis, one of the video card (Radeon 9800m/256mb), the top and bottom sides of the CPU heatsink assembly with the shroud removed, and one of the chipset heatsink.
//EDIT
You can find the complete specs of the laptop (along with my other computers) in this thread... the laptop pictured here is the Dell XPS...
http://www.ic-games.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=671
Briefly though, it has a 3.4GHz P4E, 1GB of dual channel DDR400, and a 256MB Radeon 9800m (which is a Radeon X800se with power saving features... don't ask me why they didn't call it the X800se-m, because I don't know, but they didn't)
The first two thumbnails are what it would look like if you pulled the LCD, keyboard, and wrist rest, then reinstalled the keyboard bracket (has to be uninstalled to get the wrist rest off). So basically it's what it'd look like if you could look into the laptop with it assembled. The first pic has the DVD/CD-RW drive installed, the second one has it removed, showing just the corner of the hard drive underneath it.
Then a partially disassembled pic with the bracket out, all the drives out, and the two externally accessible fans out.
After that, there's a pic of the top of the motherboard in its magnesium chassis (which fits inside the plastic outer shell) and one of the bottom in the chassis.
Finally there are a couple of the top and bottom of the motherboard itself, removed from the chassis, one of the video card (Radeon 9800m/256mb), the top and bottom sides of the CPU heatsink assembly with the shroud removed, and one of the chipset heatsink.
//EDIT
You can find the complete specs of the laptop (along with my other computers) in this thread... the laptop pictured here is the Dell XPS...
http://www.ic-games.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=671
Briefly though, it has a 3.4GHz P4E, 1GB of dual channel DDR400, and a 256MB Radeon 9800m (which is a Radeon X800se with power saving features... don't ask me why they didn't call it the X800se-m, because I don't know, but they didn't)
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Crazy looking mobo, all cut to fit.
Thnx Geeky for givin us a chance to see under the hood, so to speak.
Now, You can get it back together, Right? lol
Nice shots Geeky.
How's things been going with you Geeky?