Installing memory, drives and cards in the PCIe slots are all easy. That being said, it's the price you pay for having such a cleanly laid out system. Taking the Mac Pro apart is by no means an easy task, and while our job would've been easier had we not run into the standoff snag with the memory cage it's still not all that easy to gain access to the motherboard or CPUs in this case. Keep in mind that what you're looking at are the heatsinks used on the 2.0GHz single core G5s, the 2.5GHz processors used an even larger heatsink assembly with integrated water cooling.
You'll note that the heatsinks on the Xeon processors are significantly smaller than those on the G5s: With no fan assembly we could remove the CPU heatsinks and replace the socketed CPUs, but we'll talk more about that in the next part of our series.
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