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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 11:42 am 

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Good Morning- first time poster. Read as much as I can on sorting, binning, shipping, and evaluating.

Have approximately 15lbs of assorted Ram- single sided single chip, double sided single chip, double sided double chip, etc. Do these need to be sorted or kept separate ?

Also have heat spreaders- I see they're on different price/lb. Removing them is easy, and some are aluminum (which I recycle locally). Would doing so move it back into the straight ram category ?

Since many of these ram sticks were ECC/Registered or combinations of, they have a small chip on them. Separate these for ease of processing ?

2 massive SUN chips. So much history there... and CPUs.

Thank you in advance or guidance as I do not wish to make additional work for anyone.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:23 pm 
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Ram is sorted into three categories :
Gold or silver fingers
And ram with a heat shield.

As long as it has more than 2 chips it will still be a ram class (and not blank ram).

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:45 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Ram is sorted into three categories :
Gold or silver fingers
And ram with a heat shield.

As long as it has more than 2 chips it will still be a ram class (and not blank ram).


SO much easier than I feared.

Removal of heat shield/spreaders OK? Fortunately not too many of them.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 3:10 pm 
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If you can remove them without damaging the board and chips; yes.
Some are glued, some just use thermal paste: others use rivets.

Stick a tiny screwdriver between the shield and a chip. And scrap a bit out. If it’s grey gently pry the shield off.
If it’s yellow or white skip it.

As for rivits, with practice you can use a small nail or bolt cutter to snip through the circle at an angle, then pop the shield from the steel

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