Quote Originally Posted by Jax View Post
Forgive me if this has been covered, I have searched and couldn't come up with a straight answer. I have a few questions as I am mgetting in a bunch of boards.
1. Should I be cutting off all the capacitors and chips etc othese boards? Is it worth the effort?
2. The ones with gold fingers, if I remove these from the boards, does it drop the value of the board?
3. Are the gold pins part of the "gold fingers". Should I remove those as well?



I'm still new and want to maximize my $$$ on these boards and others in the future
If you do all that then your "devaluing" the boards. You need to decide which way holds more value to you.