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Does Boardsort pay by the pound for these smaller IC chips? I only see the ones with legs in the picture on the E-scrap page.

And secondly-

I have what I believe to be Hi-Telco boards from a Cisco Ethernet switch. It has some small, I guess they'd be called- "daughter boards" sticking up off of it, but they are soldered onto the main board. Should I remove these boards? or leave them as is? Will it knock it down a grade?

As long as a component is an IC chip it can go in the IC category. The smaller ones you're zoomed in on do still have legs, they're just shorter as manufacturing gets better at consistently making smaller things well.

My guess on the ethernet switch is the boards sticking up can stay but given the transformer type components on them, it may be low Telco instead of high. Depending on what's on each of those smaller boards, the image of one side is a little blurry, you might have midgrade to high peripheral on them individually.

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