ccussins wrote:
It looks like the board in the lower right hand corner of the first picture came out of a laptop. If it actually came out of a laptop, would it be graded as a laptop motherboard?
Given the other boards my assumption is they’re thin clients. (Inc micro and ultra thin etc.
I get what your seeing completely. But if it /is/ a laptop it’s so low end (no offence to OP if original owner) I just don’t see it.
I’ve pointed out a couple of times before that when it comes to metal socket MBs removing the metal bracket neither changes the grade nor fools anyone.
To further that: the rest of the half LGA mixed sockets will be metal socket. Period.
To the one you question:
Let me take a deep dive into HP. The second largest laptop seller.
The current Z series listed as entry level.
These aren’t laptop boards. Nor is anyone’s Chromebook. The entire premise of a laptop above entry level (basic, midrange, business, gaming, enterprise), is the placing of a desktop computer inside a portable shell.
Low end, being below basic, and chromebooks are just much larger tablet boards. Not downscaling of desktop boards.
The board posted is an mini ITX derivative. Not Atx.
It strips away the majority of individual controllers for a pair of slimmed down ASICs. The PGA socket is an early nm level. Meaning tiny pin sockets. And very few of them.
Chris is a bit more generous than I am and I grade here on HIS low end for these forums. I wouldn’t pay $1/lb for that one personally.
I simply don’t see any way that board would make it as laptop grade even if the the intakes was in Oregon enjoying therapeutic mushrooms with a 6 pack of 4 loco.
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