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Hello, I have a small pile of boards I'm trying to sort and I've figured out some of the main ones but am not too confident on my identification of these ones. I'll spread them out across a few posts to keep it a bit more organized.

In the attached photos, I believe all of them to be mid-grade. (I intend to trim the gold fingers off the BT/wifi modules in picture C)

Semi related, are the gold/copper colored pads seen on some boards worth anything, do they add anything to a board?

Thank you very much for your time!

C is all clean GFC

B top left gold pin connector the next 3 left side mid grade right side first 3 high peripheral, bottom right mid grade unless it has gold pins in the plugs if so it can go as gold pin connectors

A all are high peripheral except far right side the the 4 green rectangle boards with single black dot (IC chip) are low peripheral.

After you trim the fingers of of the "C" boards, they will all be high periph.

they will be trimmed GFC......I know they are the same pay out as of now but they should be separated as trimmed GFC

rdw, I count 4 IC's on the 2nd from the top left board. I would have to go high peripheral on that one unless you see something I don't. The 3rd and 4th from the top on the left side I can't disagree completely as I'm still learning the lines but I do see 2 IC's on each and not much junk compared and would have to say borderline High peripheral. The bottom right board with 1 IC I'm wondering if that could go low peripheral even if there's no gold in the plugs, not sure if it's too far of a stretch for High peripheral if there is gold in the plugs but I struggle with gold pins and have a hard time saying that they are gold, no matter the color.
I am only pointing out what I see and I do not have the experience to make any calls just checking to see if you saw what I did.

SamW,

If you are talking about group B the board that appears to bent.
Those 4 chips across the top are not IC chips
I am not sure which other boards you are referring to.

Sorry rdw, I forgot to point out that I was referring to group B indeed. I've attached some pics circling the IC's I was referring to, the four chips across the top are transistors.

Those little IC chips are of minimal value. You could throw them in low peripheral or high peripheral and possibly get away with it no bigger than the boards are.
But, I personally do not believe they will go any higher than midgrade.

take this board for example it has 7 IC chips, even if you pull the heat spreader and capacitors its still not going make peripheral it will still be a low grade board.

That is true, but that board you pictured is a brown board to begin with and there is a big difference in the makeup of the brown boards compared to the green boards from my understanding(more layers of metal materials). I'm using what I've seen mostly from ccussins post on high and low peripheral and in the 3rd paragraph of marked's reply of this post:
https://boardsort.com/escrapforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20773&p=40128&hilit=quality+of+board+layers#p40128
I thought I had seen lost talk about it as well but couldn't find any posts specifically(it's hard to keep straight where you see everything when there is so much information to look through), and also talking to my nearest yard that buys escrap, though they don't sort as far as Boardsort the same basic idea seemed to be there with them. In short green on both sides is of higher value all by itself. Although, I understand why you say midgrade because that is this board's base basically, those are the things I considered and why I looked at things the way I did, realizing also what you said about the IC's themselves being of lower value(which removed would still go in the IC category). Maybe some one else will interject also and help us/me understand better, I have tended to be too optimistic at times when looking at patterns but all that matters is how Boardsort would grade it.

Boarsort specializes in e-scrap, they are also very close to the top of the food chain. This is why they have such a spread on grades and why they pay more than a lot of e-scrap buyers.
Yes that is a brown board and yes probably 95% of brown boards are low grade it all depends on the make up of the board. Most mouse boards are brown they will go high peripheral, 3-1/2” floppy drive boards are brown and very low population on the board they go as high peripheral also.

Here is another example one of these two boards is high peripheral the other is low telco. They both have good IC population but its in the value of the chips.