Is This Rare?

[Blargaman91]

I received two GameCube motherboards recently front "Diamond Life Sales", one of which looks quite peculiar. It is a DOL-001 model, CPU-10, NTSC. But I noticed that the green coating (I don't know what you call it) over all the traces is a very blueish green in comparison to other boards, and it shines a lot more. Also, in the space that is usually empty under the GPU where it looks like a fourth black capacitor should go, there actually is a fourth black capacitor.

The color difference may not be too obvious with the bad lighting. Is there anything particularly important about these boards, or are they the same? I just want to know before I start using it.

 

[DuHasst0]

Like this?

 

[Blargaman91]

I don't know, that one looks pretty yellowish green like the normal one I have in the left of my pictures. But it does have the fourth capacitor. From what I can tell, the operation of my board is just like any other IPL v1.0 one. Have you noticed any hardware differences using that board you showed?

 

[DuHasst0]

No but this is not confirmed working at the moment. I have a cpu 11 in my portable. Very much like what is in Ashen's trimming guide.

 

[Blargaman91]

Oh well, I'm sure there are countless more verieties that all work the same. I was just intrigued by the stark blueish color.

 

[DuHasst0]

Yeah all 3 boards I have have a slightly different color mask than the next.

 

[Blargaman91]

Ah. Okay. Thanks for the replies.

 

[DuHasst0]

Anytime

 

[zack]

I can't tell you what differences the boards have (besides their appearances), but I can tell you that it's not very rare. I have 7 gamecubes total, each with a variety of circuit colors and components.