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The RVL-CPU-01 motherboard is the first revision of the Wii hardware launched in 2006, and it featured 90nm GPU and CPU chips.

If bushing's imgs weren't good enough, you will see some more close-ups here.

Click on the imgs to see them fullscreen.

(note for future me: upload the original imgs on Flickr)

This is a picture of the full board:


Overview
A picture of a Wii motherboard, surrounded by the white plastic, on a wooden background.


This is the MX23L4005, a combined RTC, ROM and SRAM chip:


RTC
A small chip.


Here you can see the RVL-CPU-01 markings and the Mitsumi DWM-W004 WiFi card:


WiFi
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Here you can see the Mitsumi WML-C43 Bluetooth card:


Bluetooth
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This is the optical drive; the metal part locks the drive mechanism in place and allows the drive to pick up, read, and eject the disc.

That PCB contains a sensor that detects if a disc has been inserted, so the drive can pick it up and read it.


Optical drive #1
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This is the optical drive without the metal retention.


Optical drive #2
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These are the optical drive controller chips: they manage all data exchanged between the Starlet and the disc drive.


Optical drive #3
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This board has some interesting sharpie marks.


Sharpie
Some chips laying on a circuit board; in the middle, there is something scribbled with a sharpie.