Good day, I would like thest TV studio graphics and communication boards graded please, these boards came out of a Grass Vallet server cabinets. The total weight is 103lbs

You have my friend a nice collection of telecom at $4.00 a pound.

Some of the boards have some cpu's in a socket that you can easily remove without downgrading the board at all like in the first picture and the second picture. I think those cpu's can go as Motorola/Foreign Gold Cap Chips at $80.00 per lb.

602 is right on the boards. For those sony chips, in one of the photos, can those be unsocketed and photographed both top and bottom? You may be able to sell those as CPU chips as opposed to selling as IC chips. Exact grade can be determined once we see the photos. I'm also seeing a couple boards that appear to have RAM sticks in them. Can those be removed as well? Even if it's silver or tin fingered, you will get more for those separately than leaving on the board and selling as telcom.

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Thank you so much for the info, and to answer each question, yes the ram can easily be removed and is silver based (tin) and the Sony chips are gold on the legs. There is also several Motorola gold capped processors approx 6 total in all of the boards. So I should remove those before sending them out.

Also there are several IC chips that have windows inside them that show gold as well how are these graded or what category should I place these? Thanks

If the motorola gold caps can be removed, remove those. Can you post a photo of the Sony chips (top and bottom) so we can accurately grade those?

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Here are the Sony Chips front and back, they have all been removed as well. What category are the Sony chips?

One last questions since these are listed as telecom boards does it hurt the value if i remove the gold fingers off the edge of the boards?

Looking at the chips, I believe they are going to go as either pentium ceramic or AMD ceramic with aluminum top, depending on what type of material the top of the chip with the Sony logo is made of.

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