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Hey all, I’ve got a few boards I have a weird feeling about sending in for scrap. I’ve heard from a few people that slocket boards, old 486 boards, EDO ram, and some other old boards all have more value than the do in scrap but I just wanted to check on here first.

I know I have one slocket board and an old 486 board. Whether the ram is EDO or any of the other stuff has value over scrap I'm not

Any help would be appreciated!

Top board is a PII/PIII board with PGA celeron support

The Titan r takes a K6-2 or K2b cpu. It’s a compaq board

K7SEM Board is a K7 series board.

I can’t read the model or serial numbers from the ram.

Scrap will always be the lowest value. However as large and robust as the hobby/retro markets are selling old boards is a waiting game for the right person to come along.

From the intel side, anything older than 386 is worthwhile for the wait to sell it.
Slot III boards have value. And Core 2 quad boards.

On the AMD side the K6-2 boards are usually worth selling. As are AM2+. Both series have flashable controllers that allow for using the next gen back and forward, respectively, with minimal impact compared to using the correct board.

Your slot board may be worth the time if you can verify it works.
Same with the K6-2 board.

Arrow bios chips from the early years have some value both to hobbyists and collectors. And can get into mid double digit values.
Otherwise bios chips are fairly commonplace and most 12-bit+ bios (and derivative) chips sell in the $5-$10 range new. $1-$5 used.
More specialised custom chips can be worth more but your looking at the 8-bit era for that stuff. Or post-16-bit dawn. Single chips with IO and Rom on the same unit. Or other specialised relations: E.g. Apple, Atari, DEC, Commodore.

I’ve talked about EDO ram elsewhere. It’s not expensive for the pin module size but it is rare. Ideally nobody would ever scrap working EDO memory. Even partially working modules can be salvaged for the working chips. Despite the low value every piece of EDO ram should be saved and sold or donated. There’s so little of it.

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Gotcha. Thanks for all the info lost!

Ohkay. Maybe it was just me but suddenly the photo loads properly. Lol
The component datasheet simply pegs the memory as dynamic ram. So I don’t believe it’s EDO

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