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Took apart a couple of pretty cheap laptops that had these boards.

1: I assume would be classified as a laptop motherboard, but do I remove the chip?

2: peripheral low grade?

3, 5, 6: Think these might just be mid grade, the pins don’t appear to be gold.

4: high peripheral?

1 laptop board
2 Peripheral High Grade
3-5-6 i have sent in as low Peripheral
4 Peripheral High Grade

I agree with austin86.
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My evaluations are my own opinion

Chip stays it's soldered on (only remove socketed ones). Remove the steel from the laptop mobo, I usually push the on the standoffs (where the fan/heatsink was screwed to) to break the adhesive

I've always done 3,5,6 as midgrade, but that's a habit from before the peripheral split, is there really enough there to bump up?

Rest I agree with.

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I sent them in as low peripheral more then a few times.

Thanks for posting these OP. I have a few of these I was on the fence with how to grade. Now I don't have to waste everyone's time and repost mine.

I always have to re-remember visible gold = peripheral (as a general rule as there is always exceptions).

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