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Can you help us ID the following parts? It's a lot but your help is very much appreciated. Thanks!

In order

Peripheral
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Probably large socket
Remove bracket and leave chips for telco
Pentium pro
Need to see other side
Hard drive board
Peripheral

This is the front photo

And I've got more that needs help with grade/ID...

Massive 68k chip and gold pins, two silver ports,
I'd go with peripheral here

In order.

Again need other side but layout suggest peripheral

Cd/dvd
Peripheral
Peripheral
Gold ram
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Telco
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Slot processor if you can gently remove the heatsink

Pentium pro
Large socket
Backplane. Ok to cut the fingers
Gold finger card
Peripheral and wires. Cut the big ports off for for gold end connectors. Cut the ribbon connectors for silver/tin ram class fingers and gold fingers
Large socket, ok to cut the gold fingers
Large socket
Peripheral
Mid grade. Remove ic for low grade plus ic chip
Same board
Leave chips in for telco
Peripheral
Peripheral left telco right
2 gold finger cards
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Gold finger card
Peripheral
T2b hard drive/?/peripheral
?
Peripheral
Hard drive board
Both peripheral
Both peripheral
Mixed repeats
Cd/dvd
Hard drive board
Peripheral
?
Mixed repeats
Peripheral
Peripheral
Backplane
Large socket

Some of the separate photos are the same item but just a different shot - front and back, a few sides. You can just use the numerical file image # for ID if that works or helps.

My apologies if I have overwhelmed the moderators or abused the system anyway. Someone offered me a free pallet of old electronics out of a warehouse so I decided to try and educate myself a bit and break it all down in my spare time.

I've done some minor metals scrapping in the past but never "e-scrapping." Some of the questions I have beyond simple ID:

1. Are there any other items I should remove for maximizing seller value or minimizing work on the buyer?

2. Since I am green as most of these boards...what minimal must have tools would you suggest I have in my e-scrapping arsenal to be more efficient.

3. If there are gold fingers on a board with a metal bracket, will these two combined markers ALWAYS mean the board will be identified/valued as a "gold finger card." The reason I ask is because how significantly different a few of them are than the majority I have already clearly identified as finger cards. Specifically the boards in photos 0082, 0053, 0043 are very different from two full boxes I have of already identified gold cards

4. Photo 0035 shows a back side of a card that appears to have gold circuit wire tracing the surface or just below the surface. Am I correct? If so, how does this change board value/grading?

5. Can you tell if the piece in 1782 may have came off the board in 1766? If so, do I need to somehow include or submit separate?

6. In photo files #0031, 0028, 0027, 0017 it appears that their are several geometric shaped portions of the board (primarily circles near the edges and squares on the corners) that are "gold" but has a bit of an unusual shade for being gold. ???

7. I notice a lot of comments in this forum about removing connectors. Is the reference to what I see in 1876, 1874, 1753, 0090?

Feel free to take a small batch at a time each day and respond so that you can serve other members.

Thank you so very much!

I must have been typing out my prior questions at the same time you were responding to the photos.

No need to follow my suggestion on photo file #'s, I'm certain i can figure it out and you probably answered many of my questions with you id and comments. i will review them all shortly

Thanks so much

Always remove heatsinks larger than the chip it cools, or larger than a single chip, ie the slot processor
Also remove cast iron brackets from peripheral boards from old rack equipment. Big, heavy black pieces, weigh more than the board. Finally, all fans and all batteries. Fans have too much variance to accommodate for within pricing and batteries go boom.


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Any quarter to half size board (peripheral add on boards) with gold fingers and a bracket is a good guide. They will almost always fall into gold finger card or better.



Alone, it doesn't. Gold value is infinitesimally low in that. Not even grains.


That's a cpu. The have a value separate from the board. In your case a Pentium pro.


That's an industry standard marking for pre production signifying gold flashing circle for gold through holes, square for a gold layer. Again very low amount of gold quantity and not enough for a jump in value in most cases.



Removing connectors almost always is in reference to cutting the ends off wires.



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