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found these large heavy boards today how should i classify them??
any input is appreciated thanks..

Those all appear to be server boards. The third one is a dual small socket board. Remove the metal that is around and below the sockets on the back side before selling. The ribbon wires can be removed and ends trimmed for cable ends and mixed wire.

For the other two boards, are the CPU chips soldered to the board or are those empty sockets that CPU chips or processor cards sat into and the area that would be considered the CPU socket gold plated? Your first board does contain aluminum heatsinks on the left side which appear large and may require removal prior to purchase.

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kgryczan
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there are no chips in those gold squares the chips under the heat sinks are soldered on and the heat sinks seem to be glued on but they pop off without too much trouble. one of the server boards also had a few of these smaller boards still attached(pictured below) they seem to have gold connectors.
SO, I dont see a price for server boards on the price list will boardsort buy these??

Once you have the heatsinks removed, those two other boards will likely go as small multi-socket motherboards. Those expansion cards you removed from that one board appear to be peripheral grade. Is the large black piece on top of the board you removed a heatsink as well? If so, remove it and it will expose the ICs underneath.

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kgryczan
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yeah those heat sinks also popped right off 4 IC chips underneath. I'm still a little unclear about board 1 they are really big about 17"X20" and weigh about 8Lbs I guess I should send them an email with pics and descriptions to be sure if they want them..

Your first board does contain a lot of metal, which is adding to that weight. I would remove as much of it as possible. With just a glance, I can tell you it's a dual small socket board. The board weight will give you a nice payout, but if all of that metal is present, then boardsort will not purchase the board, or purchase it at a lesser grade to account for the metal requiring removal before processing the board for precious metal recovery.

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kgryczan
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got them all stripped down one place i asked told me the large ones are telecom boards and they will pay $4.50 lb