Some E Waste FYI

Originally Posted by armygreywolf

7. Motherboards: Stop throwing away high value boards. If your about to chuck a i series 1155/1156 board and you didn't at least check it for blown caps...you might be losing money. AM3 boards? Same thing...and gaming boards with TWO PCIe x16 slots...you really have to pay attention to your scrap loads and know what you are taking in.

I totally agree with this. This is an extreme example, but I pulled a motherboard from an XPS 8100 from a load of scrap boards awhile back. This thing was just floating around loose with all the other boards in a gaylord. Bent pins, scratches, etc. I straightened the pins, and hooked it up and it worked fine. I sold that motherboard for $50 and the i7 that was in it for $90. Funny thing, I don't have thermal paste so I had to scrape a bunch of it off of scrap CPUs and plop it on the i7 so it would contact the heatsink better when I was testing

I even have good luck selling older boards such as Socket 7, Slot 1, etc ASUS motherboards. They're worth checking out.