And the Results are in!

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Originally Posted by Dunemaul

Just 1 more thing. On the pci cards you have the heat sinks still attached. Use a flat head screw driver to pry and twist it from the thermal paste. they pop right off. other then that looks like you did very well.

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almost forgot to do that thanks dunemaul

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Originally Posted by Bear

well, so far i've been able to see two of them, that second motherboard photo, what is that board in the lower left? I can't quite figure that one out (looks like it has some chips on it? ). Do you have a point and shoot camera with an optical zoom? It doesn't matter how much zoom, just a 3x is better than none, as long as it has some optical zoom, your photos will have much greater clarity (megapixels aren't nearly as important as basic optics ; )

That third photo you have some old ISA networking boards I believe, the long ones on the left, do those have like 5 ethernet connectors on each one? Those should be a better grade too, in my thinking, than regular pci finger cards, but i guess you'll just have to leave that them to decide how to treat ya on that one. You must have gotten ahold of an old office server there or something

I'm following this in the order you started with, photobucket kinda reverses them, so i started at the bottom

Cool job Julie!

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Here is a close up of that board - its a laptop motherboard
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0836.jpg

here are a couple more pics - here's that thing from before with the heat sink off... from the other thread
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0837.jpg
the 2 on the left are from a laptop & the other is from an apple airport thing
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0838.jpg
I found this in a cell phone not sure what it is
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0839.jpg
here's the other side
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0840.jpg
other things i thought were kinda cool - i may make the wheel thing into a necklace!
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0841.jpg
these are pics of an ethernet media converter brand new in the box - should i tear it down? if it's outdated technology i might as well but what do you think?
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0842.jpg
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0843.jpg
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0844.jpg
here is the box of the things i took off of the side of the finger boards before i knew i was not supposed to
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0845.jpg
lol

ahhh! Ok, cool! I guess now you know what a ZIF (zero insertion force) connector is too, and how easy it will be to replace your laptop keyboard should you ever have the need to :)

maybe those new photos will load if i leave it there long enough (darned dialup!), need to do some lawn mowing anyway :P

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Originally Posted by Bear

ahhh! Ok, cool! I guess now you know what a ZIF (zero insertion force) connector is too, and how easy it will be to replace your laptop keyboard should you ever have the need to :)

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I do?
lol i tear them apart not try to put them together again... i wasn't really paying attention enough to have confidence that i could put it back together and it work!

I was thinking about taking the gold fingers off too... any thoughts there? the way that i have it figured if i do that it would maximize the profit potential. the reason that buyers price it the way that they do is because it is less labor intensive if i take them off right?

You'll need to decide that between you and a buyer, or someone who's sold more of it, Julie, and whether the price would be worth the time
I'm believing that top photo is some type of VRM, especially since he said those showed as power chips, and only guessing it would be about equal to any other finger card, but again, i don't have that much experience in the buying and selling of it.
What did your new necklace piece come from?

Just have to research that ethernet thing on Ebay, and see if they're selling there, it's likely outdated though( I checked, it's outdated, probably has a board of some sort in it though).
That photo with the Apple airport wifi thing, i can only see the top two, and read the Sony part of the other one. That one on the top left is a laptop memory stick, i suppose just goes with your other RAM memory. Google "apple airport extreme", looks kinda pricy, depending on the model

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Originally Posted by Dunemaul

Just 1 more thing. On the pci cards you have the heat sinks still attached. Use a flat head screw driver to pry and twist it from the thermal paste. they pop right off. other then that looks like you did very well.

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Julie, do not do this. Some require you to remove them and some do not.

I would suggest finding a buyer that will not require this. More money in your pocket and lass work. Win win.

The cellphone thingie might be the internal antenna, and the wheel thingie is copper wire. Then the box of steel brackets off of the finger cards, just add those to your (growing) steel pile. Not all buyers want the fingers cut off, check with a buyer that YOU want to sell to and see how they want them.

yeah this is true always talk to your buyer first some are really laid back with sending them waste metals. im just not in that group, so i clean everything.

so i found out what that finger board is it's a Delta Voltage Regulator Module VRM 12S1560E
http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...3/IMG_0837.jpg