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I have about 60 lbs. of what I THINK are I-series motherboards that only bring $2.25 lb. which means that, after shipping costs, I’ve only made a few bucks.

Questions:

Just take them to the scrap yard?
Take the time to remove the good stuff and ship that to Boardsort?
What would a REAL scrapper do?

All advice greatly appreciated!

Gizz

find a cheaper way to ship them. at 135$ you should be able to make at least 100$ off them after shipping. try pirate ship, they have good shipping rates.


EDIT: Also the dual CPU boards go as Metal Multi Socket Server motherboard and they go for more.

The quoted price for the board includes the metal socket and you are decreasing the weight by taking that off. That extra weight will cost more to ship, but increases your total payout as well.

Some server boards more so intel boards with narrow heat sink mounts like most of what he posted do not have them. But yes GrumpyGizzy leave the metal in place if the board has them.

Leave metal clamps for the cpu in place.

REMOVE the large back bracket that is on the back. If that removes the spring clamp as well so be it.

Leaving the backplate will lower the grade.

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hmm I never removed those backplates and never had anything downgraded

I’m talking about the 2-5 inch square steel plate for heatsink mounting.
Not the thin steel bars that support the socket.

Large steel has to be removed. Just like large heatsinks

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do you mean the mounts on the heatsink? or the steel plate on the back side of the board ?

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ahh the heaksink mounts, I thought you were talking about the steel plate the socket latch screw into