kgryczan wrote:
yes, boardsort will take IC chips harvested from any board you have. Remember to check that what you are removing are chips and not a piece of tin-plated copper that is often confused for an IC chip.
Yes, an IC chip is likely going to have at least 6 legs (there are rare exceptions) but they can come from low grade board with no problems.
As far as those ends are concerned, it is impossible to tell from the pictures if they have gold tips or not. They do not look like the millions of ends I have purchased in the past so I would be skeptical that they are gold, but then again, I see new things every day.