Your Hardware Exposed! 22 PC Parts Bare All
Posted 08/07/09 at 10:00:00 AM by The Maximum PC Staff
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You may know what the inside of a PC looks like, but what about the parts which make up your PC components? Over the past few years, we've dissected hard drives, keyboards, soundcards, and a plethora of other PC hardware, just to see what makes them tick. Here, we've picked out 22 of these autopsies to showcase. If you've ever wanted to see the guts of a netbook or the silicon that makes a network router work, read on!
Western Digital VelociRapter 3000BLS Hard Drive
Solid state drives are creeping toward affordability (and decent write speeds), but for all-around performance, there’s still no beating an old-school hard drive. The fastest one out there is the Western Digital VelociRaptor. Here’s what makes it tick.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Sound Card
It’s no longer in vogue to flash your bare chips to the world, so we cracked open a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty PCI-E soundcard to see just what’s hiding inside this audio powerhouse.
12cm PC Case Fan
Without fans, our computers would be toasty inside. But how does this simplest of cooling devices actually work, and what’s the difference between a noisy fan and a quiet one? We delve into the inner workings of this miraculous device to unravel these mysteries.
Been there, done that.
Submitted by JohnP on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 1:39pm
Except for one or two of the dvices that I do not own, I have seen the insides of most of this stuff. And some of it actually went back together and worked!
12mm fan for a PC case?
Submitted by sharkyv36 on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:39pm
12mm fan for a PC case? That's kinda small isn't it?
Submitted by SplashPants on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 4:03am
I'm pretty sure it said 12 CM... and unless I really suck at math that is 120mm. And 120MM is a standard sized case fan.
Submitted by pastorbob on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 3:26pm
80mm is the standard case fan size. 120mm is found on a few custom systems but it is far from being the standard.
Submitted by tkddan87 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 9:52pm
120mms are now fairly standard in consumer cases they may start to be phased out by even larger fans. its hard to find a 80mm on a modern consumer case
80mm are still the standard for 4u server cases
Submitted by kai-pro com on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 1:54pm
120mm is pretty much the standerd for cases my case has 220mm its huge thats a custom fan!!!
Submitted by AttilaTheHunk on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 5:59pm
Since when did we consider GPS devices, mp3 players, mobile phones and ebook readers as PC parts?
Submitted by Hutif on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 8:44pm
I get his point though. They could have said "Electronic Devices" instead of "PC Parts." This is Maximum PC, so we can assume that it's going to be PC-related.
Submitted by Illidankilla on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:07am
Not only that, but I also expected pc parts because the title said "PC Parts". :P
Submitted by SuperiorBeing on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 8:09pm
You can't really take most PC components apart, e.g. ram, processors, etc, so they use things they can take apart.
Submitted by arkweld on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 6:03pm
since finding actual PC parts to support a monthly autopsy column became really difficult.
Think about how many PC components you can take apart and look inside. There aren't many and most of us have probably already broken in to those.
Submitted by DJO33 on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 5:43pm
"OCZ Core 64BG SSD"
A BG? LOL! i started laughing when i saw that. Thats happened to me on many occassions. just wanted to point that out. Great article though. always interesting to see whats under the hood of different devices.
Submitted by CentiZen on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 5:34pm
Is it just me, or are all of the items in this artice past autopsies (from the magazine of course)
I remeber seeing a lot of these.
Submitted by erolsipar on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 5:13pm
Great review. It's actually good for ones that are curious what's under the hood. Remember don't fix it if it aint broken.
Woooooo Take it off! Take
Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 5:05pm
Woooooo
Take it off!
Take it all off baby!
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Submitted by Digital-Kid0101 on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 7:03pm
Wow that's just funny lol.
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