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Can a get a grading on these please. Also. Some of these boards have flat pack processors with the gold corners. Are these considered to be “gold capped chip” boards or is that reserved for the gold capped Motorola chipped boards when they are soldered to the board or if it has an 8086 that’s gold on the board. And does boardsort even buy buy EDO ram as anything other than ram. If not does anyone know anywhere that they have had good luck with on EDO. . Got 4 sticks of them here. It’s my understanding they are of more value than any other ram. Thanks.

Large socket
Peripheral Remove the heatsink
Low telco, remove the Dallas clock boxes
I believe that’s large socket. Measure to be sure

Gold cap chip board has (usually soldered) ICs with a gold plated heat spreader. Flat packs/BGAs don’t count. But never remove flat packs. The value of the board plummets even removing one chip. Usually because Chris would love it if you left a socketed gold cap chip board. They’d pull it and credit if you mistakenly left it in... but they’ll get a good laugh.


EDO is something I’ve talked about at length over the years here.
Always try to sell it on the open market. I did a breakdown a few months back but outside of the extreme ends EDO isn’t all that expensive because the marketplace has kept it in circulation as an intentional practice.
That said the pricing doesn’t display how rare EDO memory is in general. It’s a vital commodity needed to keep the country running. Everything from old factory mini servers to commercial train switches depend on it.
If you can’t test it sell it as is. If you know it’s dead say so and sell it.
Part of what keeps the price low is dead “cells” are a given in EDO from day one. But people will still pay over scrap value for truly dead modules on the hopes of salvaging usable chips for repairs on partially working ones.

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Thanks. I kinda figured that was the case on the gold caps. All these boards and I think we have all of one may be 2. These EDO memory sticks we out of what I was told by the facility Maintanence supervisor at a property I was working at were never used old sun microsystem servers and/ or 4 still sealed in the boxes Davox predictive dialer units from a call center. Looked around and found that the dialers might be useful if say someone really wanted to replace one they had but would need to sort out what I lacked which was essentially a product key making the box useless. So stripped them down. From what I was told these suits had sat at least 10 years where they were at. Never used. However the shipping labels on their boxes clearly stated they were shipped Around 2000 there location. I would have to assume they do work. But I wouldn’t bet the farm on them doing so either. Stuff happens and regardless of the box and all. There is still 10 years of unknown there. So o guess I will see what I can find. Would eBay be a good route to go? Also I was poking through the forums and read something that I don’t think I understood right. Are there power supplies for servers that have some type of cpu in them. I think I misunderstood what was said or some context was lost. Because that doesn’t sound right.

Thanks for the help.

In my experience, I've had server or power blocks contain nice chips and gold fingers, just fyi. I can usually resell them though. Depends on what.

Bricks (Half slot rectangles) and cubes (quads) from servers are one of the very rare cases where a bit of guided cleaning can bring the midgrade board up to full peripheral.

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