I have several motherboards that are 100% functional. Does that make a difference?
Are there resale possibilities for working components? I know it's worth what someone will pay but for ex.:I have an AGP vid card, new never used. Power supplies? Memory? Scrap a working processor with you or try to sell it?
Excuse me. I didn't intend to make a new topic.

How should I tackle something like this Dell PowerEdge 1850? I ask b/c it's quite large and heavy and I imagine the case is just "dead" weight that I can scrap locally.
I know the button cell, several black heatsinks, fans, need to go. There is what appears to be a cordless phone type battery. The processor has pins and seems bonded to the heatsink. Power supplies? Hard drives? Memory? I plugged it in and it fires up, fans, and beeps and I just noticed hard disks as well.

Boardsort will buy certain processors that are working for more than scrap, but other than that everything else is just scrap. Seeing how that Dell 1850 is using 256Mb DDR2 ram, it's probably 20 years old. You might be able to find a buyer, but there are a few on Ebay anywhere from $35 to $235

Thanks. The cpus in the Dell have pins so I don't think they qualify. I was just wondering about the Dell b/c I see price for whole server. I am guessing it's better to get it down to components but that case is so heavy..but shipping.

So, generally, it's best to process the boards as much as possible? Then bring the remnants to local yard for low grade price.

Rarely. It’s best to remove nothing that’s not in a socket or slot. pull ram, cpu, hard drive, expansion cards.
Also remove heatsinks, or the company will usually downgrade the board

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It's not better to sell the chips, gold fingers etc. here, bring my blank boards locally? I will find out today what they pay but I suspect it's one price. Low grade stuff is probably not worth shipping.
Update:locally 2 grades. High and low. High would be MB I assume populated with all the heavy stuff on for $0.40/lb. Low grade, that's everything else (small cards, etc.) for steel price 7¢\lb. I assume that's depop. I didn't ask. I could probab get hg for small cards if they see the gold.

Don't get in such a hurry to sell until you figure out what you have and what it is worth. Your local yard is giving you 40cents for boards that might be worth $5-10$, and shred steel price for everything else. My first foray into e-scrap, a dudw offeredme 30 cents a pound for 400 pounds of motherboards...about $120. Then I found Boardsort. delivered a small pickup load including whole CD drives, hard drives and low-midgrade boards as well as motherboards and telco and got $2700.00

It isn't about being in a hurry. There is almost no other option and shipping is going to sink everything but the highest paying. I picked most of this up 10-15 years ago. I have towers I have only checked for operability. If you want to do the experiment, go for it. Take a gold fingered ram, rmv the fingers and chips and see what you get compared to whole ram price, minus shipping.

Most likely this has been done several times and documented on the internet. If you have several systems that are functional you could setup some kind of online store and try to sell for more than scrap, or find a reseller that might pay more than scrap value. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into it.