1) I have a different approach to moderation than many are used to. I let many thing go unless someone (including me) makes a rule later. ;) A video would be fine as long as you use the same method of actually marking stuff as a photo. imagine for a moment us trying to grade a random unmarked pile of boards: at ::18 frame 7 in quadrant 2|C that is….
2) the majority of motherboards before the late twenty-teens have a socketed cpu you can remove. Pin CPUs before the early 2000s and for most AMD. Pinless after the 2000s and for nearly all RISC CPUs. It is generally a good idea to remove the socketed CPU, slot or socket RAM, and socketed ROM Chips like the BIOS/EFI/UEFI, and if they’re there I/O and AV chips.
3) marked got this well. If it’s brown on both sides it’s almost always low grade. If it’s brown and green it’s probably midgrade or low peripheral If it’s a coloured motherboard it goes as such Other boards, colours don’t change grade
4) ram sticks are ram sticks. They are gold contacts or they aren’t. They have a shield or they don’t. Terminators (with copper coils) and bridges (with capacitors and resistors) are sorted as high peripheral.
I could get fancy and point out BBM/BBR or TSPMM but the chances of literally anyone here as a consumer customer or business coming across them is near none.
One thing I point out to new users is something I used to fall for when I started here… Don’t overthink it. Scrapping out here in the real world is not the garbage ideas of ebay and talked about on face book or whatever. 99.9% of which is just garbage wrong advice.
The idea that this one board is worth something extra out of class or that board is too inferior doesn’t apply in real scrapping. Figure boardsort gets thousands or hundreds of thousands of a board type every day and puts them in giant bins. The company that processes bins get thousands or hundred of thousands of bins every day. One little bump or drop of minor level is basically a non-factor over all. Meaning you have what you have.
Those that go looking for that little bit extra tend to make mistakes, and wind up saddened even if they don’t. Looking to be perfect is a whole lot of work that ultimately isn’t necessary.
There’s exceptions to every rule, sure. But these threads are filled with posts of people asking is this more, or less… and when you round the numbers off the answer is always no.
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