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New to identifying boards, can someone confirm if my guesses on the classifications on these are correct?

1: integrated motherboard
2: high peripheral
3: gold finger card
4: low peripheral
5: high peripheral
6: AMD ceramic aluminum top K6

^ those are my guesses, hope they aren’t too far off haha

1, see the small black circle in the white part beside the chip? Should be a lock and unlock pictogram on either side. Turn the circle to the unlock and pull the chip out. It'll be a green fiber no metal CPU and the board should be Small Socket P4 Mobo. Remove the battery.

2, CD/DVD drive board

3, yes, gfc

4, yes

5, low peripheral

6, note the material and color of the middle section (between the silver cap and gold pins), green and made of the same fiber stuff as any other circuit board. Ceramic would look different, feel cooler to the touch and typically comes in whites, purples and blues. So you have a Green Fiber with metal here.

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Marked141 makes a subtle but important point about ceramic CPU/ICs. They feel cool to touch. Unless you have felt a ceramic vs fiber component. It will be hard for you to relate to. The sensation deals with heat transfer. A simple example is to touch a rock. Then touch wood. The rock will draw heat from your fingers immediately signaling your brain cool. But touch wood it will basically feel normal temperature. No immediate heat transfer from your fingers. Your fingers will not cool down nor heat up. This effect deals with thermal conductivity of the material. You need to get a ceramic CPU in your hand. Get a comparison. Learn the difference. That touch test he mentioned can really help. But as anything. You need to develope experience in e-scrapping.
I may have over worked this explaination. But. It is a valuable tool to help in identifying. Ceramic from fiber.
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You're right, the shape made me think all-in-one pc over laptop and I didn't look at the full resolution image.

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Here's a small assortment of various cpus/ICs for reference

cyrix gold cap (purple) ceramic
AMD (purple) ceramic with metal
White ceramic IC gold legs and gold in the window. Not sure I ever figured out who the F logo (covered by sticker) belongs to
Legless IC I got from some NASA surplus equipment with a purple or white ceramic mounted on brown fiber
A pinless cpu which is green fiber and metal cap
Apple cpu, green fiber with sockets on both ends

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Ok, thanks everyone for all the info! It is very helpful.

You can also take your nail and scratch it across either a plastic or ceramic chip. The ceramic chip will sound like a chalk board, while the plastic will just glide across.

#4-5, should be able to both clear High per. Those shields are easily removable. They're sometimes button soldered on the corners. Easy to bend off and clear the board/pins from damage.

..and that's the memory/flash card reader shields , USB shields can always stay.