1) yes it's gold. They accept them but there's no class on the quote form. They'll need to be scanned on site. And they're not worth as much as they look, far less than pins, though more than the gold pin connector rate usually.
2) alc is IC class. Intel is green fibre no metal. Little wifi card: as is gold finger card. Remove the shield and it may or may not get a bump up. Big Dell board is peripheral
3) all peripheral.
4) both peripheral
5) peripheral Midgrade Midgrade
6) telco Gold finger card Peripheral
7) peripheral Oh boy. This one is debatable. Technically it's a controller that happens to be using a full scale cpu but it's missing some key ingredients for the slot processor rate. For starters it's on the extended PCI bus, which is a lower quality WPA (fingers). I'm going to say telco.
You can remove as much as you want from low and midgrade boards. Normally removing any non ceramic ICs from a board is going to hurt you unless you have massive scale (hundreds of lbs of ICs and boards) where offset rates on ICs are past the full board rate. It's extremely unwise to remove ANYTHING that's soldered or glued to the board except:...! Remove as much metal as you can. A single shield here or a tiny heat sink there isn't going to get complaints but a 2 inch aluminium sink is going to downgrade the board, and potentially the entire shipment, substantially. So always remove as much aluminium and steel as you possibly can.
On the flip side feel free to leave as much clean copper on the board. Boardsort will love you forever if you leave a solid 4 inch copper heatsink on a mobo! That's a joke btw! Solid copper heatsinks actually class as Cu #0 at the larger yards. They're worth $4-$6 per lb right now in some areas so sure, leave that baby on your $1.30 per lb motherboard. ;) Side note boardsort does buy clean pure copper sinks at the national average rate. Take a look at the. Miscellaneous odds and ends to see where that is and if it's above or below your local rates.
Ceramic ICs/CPUs with gold pins that are in sockets should normally be removed. They are worth far more than board rates.
Gold cap chips, use a scale and do the math. Same with socketed telco boards. If the ICs and CPUs are worth more with a now peripheral board remove them. If not leave them on for the telco/gold cap chip board price.
Batteries. If it came out of a cell phone, has hard plastic or metal shell, and gold contacts. And says any combination of LI or lithium: It's a cell phone battery.
If it came out of a laptop and has a hard plastic shell and is more than a few inches long, and says any combination of LI or lithium it's a laptop battery. Anything in between with GOLD contacts should have a photograph posted to the identification board. Fyi many Apple and Samsung laptop batteries go as cell phone battery due to the tiny size. On the flip side some power go batteries (mobile power units) and UPS batteries can get laptop class despite their smaller than average size due to the extensive storage capacity and ability for recovery and repurposing.
Gfc My own experience; on ultra high end cards like video cards and sound cards, that will clear the peripheral class without their fingers, are more valuable fingers off. The other 90% of cards out there are more valuable fingers on as the fingerless gold finger card class is usually lower than peripheral. Cutting fingers off without someone here (admin, ranked seller etc) telling you to is very risky. At the same time posting 50 boards and asking which ones to cut the fingers off of is not gonna get a reply, atleast not the reply you're looking for. ;)
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