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The top two are BGA, but capped with metal. Will these go pinless?
The bottom one go with the regular ICs?



Have a board with a gold cap/leg IC. Should the IC be pulled, and how is it classed?

How about the board, with and without the IC?




Thanks!

Still ceramic. Still pinless. ;)


Absolutely remove the IC.
Board without it is high telco. With is gold cap chip board.
But
The IC is 8086

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Seems too short to be a CPU. Did some searching around and I think that IC is a video controller. https://www.ebay.com/itm/391741196930

I think this is the CPU:

You are correct on both counts. The 8086 you have is actually a replacement as well. Not the original.
Back then the CPU didn’t include much of anything beyond the actual PU. The gold cap is one of the original controllers.
The socket next to it is for the 8087 Coprocessor.
The 8086 required quite a fe which by the early 80s were being soldered to boards.
It doesn’t change the class though. Any such Matching designed controller from the pre-286 era is going to be 8086 class. Plus earlier ones like the 4000 series; as do any other company’s matching package design. Like bell, Motorola etc.

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