average weight of motherboards

Just a rough idea. Whats the average weight of a motherboard? Im too cheap to buy a scale and trying to figure out if the load I have is enough to cover the gas to jersey to my buyer.

most ones seem to weigh around 600 grams

Yeah ive found on average about 1.25 lbs But ive had a server board weigh at 4 lbs.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Yeah ive found on average about 1.25 lbs But ive had a server board weigh at 4 lbs.

Whats the average weight of server boards? I passed on 70 servers + a load of other bits for $450 because I didn't know how much they weighed.

ah so they weigh roughly twice that of normal motherboards on average? Hmm i could have made that work... as there were many other items as well. + all the hard drives, memory and cpus from the boards. They come up with stuff every few weeks so at least now I know. Thank you.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

Well there are e-waste buyers on this forum that would be more than happy to buy your scrap. With us being one of them.

This I know. There's a few more bits of red tape I need to look at for me to send stuff abroad though I only think this is a major issue for sending stuff to developing countries. There is also the possibility that I might need another licence to ship abroad. approx $780 a year for under 500tonnes and a little under $4k for anything over though I doubt this will affect me....

I think you might have misinterpreted what I said however, I didn't sell the servers, When I said I passed I meant I was thinking of buying them. It would have been a good buy if server boards weigh 2-3lbs. This would have more than covered the purchase cost and left all the remaining stuff of which there was a lot, as profit.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

Motherboards rul of thumb is 1 pound.

You have some that are far more...some that are far less. But when you add them all up it comes out to about 1 pound each.

How many pounds do you have? I may like to place a bid on them if you did not mind.

Easyrecycle, do you pay shipping?

Originally Posted by harrisvh

This I know. There's a few more bits of red tape I need to look at for me to send stuff abroad though I only think this is a major issue for sending stuff to developing countries. There is also the possibility that I might need another licence to ship abroad. approx $780 a year for under 500tonnes and a little under $4k for anything over though I doubt this will affect me....

I think you might have misinterpreted what I said however, I didn't sell the servers, When I said I passed I meant I was thinking of buying them. It would have been a good buy if server boards weigh 2-3lbs. This would have more than covered the purchase cost and left all the remaining stuff of which there was a lot, as profit.

If youhad a chance to buy 70 servers for $450 bucks I think I would have done that one. Thats only $6.50 per server. Im assuming you converted from pounds? I know alot of people here pay at most $5 per computer but I would think I would gladly pay as high as $8 per server. Most of the time a server will have multiple hard drives, usualy more then 4 sticks of ram. Some even have more then one and as many as 4 processors.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

If youhad a chance to buy 70 servers for $450 bucks I think I would have done that one. Thats only $6.50 per server. Im assuming you converted from pounds? I know alot of people here pay at most $5 per computer but I would think I would gladly pay as high as $8 per server. Most of the time a server will have multiple hard drives, usualy more then 4 sticks of ram. Some even have more then one and as many as 4 processors.

Thank you, all this I did not know before and yes i converted to $. I originally had to make a 250 mile (fuel cost would have been about another $75) round trip but then at last minute had a friend with a large van working there so could have got the pickup for free. Currently the prices here are not as good as what you guys get but it still would have worked out if servers are that much juicier. Thank you

Originally Posted by harrisvh

Thank you, all this I did not know before and yes i converted to $. I originally had to make a 250 mile (fuel cost would have been about another $75) round trip but then at last minute had a friend with a large van working there so could have got the pickup for free. Currently the prices here are not as good as what you guys get but it still would have worked out if servers are that much juicier. Thank you

The last server I got had 8 sticks of ram, 2 hard drives, 3 riser cards, and the case alone weighed 25 pounds. So thats $2.50 right there in steel weight. Ill take servers over regular pc's all day long unless your going to give me all 486's or something like that

Take the steel to the scrap yarrd and sell it. 10 cents a pound here.

And one to two power supplies and one to to processors and four to eight DIMMs and...Don't know whether to part them out or just flip them. Decisions...decisions...

The last server that looked like that that I scrapped had a solid copper heat sink. Weighed over 3 lbs.