Part III, Practical

We are going to take a look at all the components of the MEGA system and then will try to assemble them back into the small case. The latter process should be rather exciting, I should say.

Mainboard

The backbone of the computer, its mainboard, has very small dimensions:

Now you can examine everything to get the way of things. As you see, the mainboard is crammed with various internal connectors. As for the external connectors, they are at the back panel:

Somehow, there is no modem connector in the snapshot. However, it exists, at least in our MEGA. Now comes the front panel:

The connectors are all in place.

Everything is placed neatly and conveniently. The front panel carries just the connectors you work with from the front. By the way, the back panel also has a radio-antenna connector, but it didn’t «fit into the shot» as it is located a little above.

It’s a nice fact that nearly all potential capabilities of the chipset were implemented: network, modem, IEEE1394, USB 2.0 (only four ports of six, but that’s not bad anyway), video, and a lot of audio input and output ports.