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 Post subject: Help grade some boards
PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 5:55 pm 

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Sorry about the board overload.

Board 1.jpg - I'm leaning toward Peripheral Low grade. Is there anything that could be removed to upgrade it?

Board 2.jpg - ?

Board 3.jpg - ?

Board 4.jpg - Possibly low peripheral

Board 5.jpg - Leaning toward low peripheral, maybe high. No junk on it, looks like some capacitors have been removed. Some chip density on the back.

Board 6.jpg - Maybe high Peripheral? little junk, just a few capacitors and some chip density.

Board 7.jpg - Leaning toward low peripheral. Is there anything that could be removed to give it an upgrade?

Board 8.jpg - Very light weight. I'm thinking high peripheral on it or maybe removing some capacitors and the 2 white and 1 black transformer to help it get there? It also has an Ethernet plug on the back with gold pins.

Board 9.jpg - Low peripheral or possibly high. Some decent chip density and light weight other then the AV ports.

Board 10.jpg - Leaning toward High Peripheral. The black connector has gold tipped pens. The rest of the connectors including one on the other side and the USB has all gold pins.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 7:43 pm 

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High peripheral: 1, 9

Low peripheral: 2, 7, 10

Midgrade: 3-6, 8 All of these might have some room to get low peripheral but I'm not confident enough to say.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 3:50 pm 

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marked141 wrote:
High peripheral: 1, 9

Low peripheral: 2, 7, 10

Midgrade: 3-6, 8 All of these might have some room to get low peripheral but I'm not confident enough to say.


Thank you for the help, I removed some heatsinks, capacitors and transformers from 2 and 7 so maybe i made room for it to be considered in high peripheral.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 2:26 pm 

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I agree with Marked, and I don't see any room for upgrade on these boards.
I would have removed the material from 2 in order to assure it to low peripheral. bordering mid-grade as shown. Don't see a way to high peripheral.
#7 low peripheral with a few tiny ICs, one small low quality flat pack, several gold connectors, some probable tantalum dipped capacitors and no really heavy junk.
#6 might slide through as a low peripheral, but it would be at the low end with a low quality flat pack, one small IC and a few small MLCCS. It does lack junk, but also no visible gold. I personally would throw it in mid-grade and move on.
#1 is a good example of the low to middle part of high peripheral. reasonably nice numbers of rectangular IC chips (including two ram chips), some gold connectors, a smattering of MLCCs, a modest sized flatpack, and some allowable junk in the form of non-gold connectors.
#9 is a little lighter on the chips and gold connectors, but still some quality putting it toward the lower end of high peripheral.


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