G5 Quad Motherboard

Brice sent us these two photos of the front and back of the G5 Quad motherboard:


You can see the large heat sinks and heat pipes whose sole purpose is to cool the chipset which operates at 1.25 GHz. In addition, this system is more effective than the one from the old dual 2.5 Ghz, where under full load a small fan for the chipset would always start and create an unpleasant noise.
Now, we are approaching the reason why it was possible for Brice to take these photographs. They are definitely not very glorious for Apple, and we will let him tell you.

I have just had an on site motherboard exchange because mine broke, and you will never guess why... Because Apple stupidly forgot the 4 screws which hold the CPUs to the Motherboard (2 screws per card). So there was more than a month and a half in which the 2 cards were loose and not completely seated, which lead to the destruction of the motherboard.

Even more "funny" is that there is the evidence of it having previously been screwed in, so it obviously was disconnected (why?) and poorly reassembled before delivery.
I called Apple and asked for a replacement computer, because I did not wish to keep a machine in such a condition, but I was sent packing: they told me that they were going to send me 4 screws (because the technician arranged a trick while I was waiting).
In a similar situation, The 2 GB of Samsung Ram which I have also broke without any explanation.

This joins the previous quality control problems from Apple's assembly line, especially since we had shown that these cases are less isolated than we thought.
It is a far cry from the first Macintosh computers which were signed on the inside by the people who assembled them. Sure this is now impossible, but it should be necessary for them to do their housework and eradicate these kinds of problems which could quickly lead to a bad reputation!