if the cpu's are a reasonable speed (3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 or better), and all the motherboards have 4 ram slots as the one pictured does i would take 4 stick of that 256mb ram and install it in a tower so you got 1GB of memory (pretty much the minimum for useable computing now days), throw a hard drive in it install Windows Xp or whatever OS it has a COA sticker for and throw them on craigslist for +/- $30 ea or $15-$20 without a hard drive if they POST good.
i have sold plenty this way to local computer Repair / Replace guys especially if you can get a lot of 10 or so at a time that work, then you can scrap the leftovers and make money on both sides.
and also i have to say that i personally would not mind paying a dollar or two more per tower if the guy comes through and can deliver a reliable stream of computers for you, even with only a motherboard, ram, and cpu, and power supply, i could still average $10 a tower, it just takes a little more time than just scrapping them with no testing. Also keep an eye out for DVD-R/W drives as systems that new could very well have a few.
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