Gold Top Chips on board

[ron22]

Going through more boards found some like below.

I know check with you local dealer for best price. But I want to know what others would do.
If I look at Buying Price for Various Gold Plated CPUs, Chips and Fingers « GoldChipBuyer I see he pays $150/lb with full gold legs. Well these IC are soldered to the board and the pins do not look gold. I could be wrong on the pins. I do know how to unsolder IC I use to work assembling PC boards.
Pull the IC and sell board or just sell board?
Any ideas on price both ways?

[joebob49]

Send them a pm with pics. Or rather emails. Frank will be more then glad to help you out.

[BarrenRealms007]

We are in the process of changing our prices. I should have something for you on this tomorrow afternoon. I'm not sure what time, I have an emergency to take care of first thing in the morning and not sure how long it will take.

[metal gypsy]

IMHO....I would pull the IC's, those brown/gold ones will have gold.....The rest of the board would be gold finger board @ 3.75 per LB at my local yard. Sell the IC's
to a buyer.

[Jeremiah]

Ron,

What did this board come out of?

[ron22]

I decided to not pull the chips. To much time and I have alot of stuff to go through.
I did find a bag of chips already pulled in the load. Bag is labeled 175pcs I have no idea of weight. The legs are NOT gold.

[ron22]

Jeremiah, I can not tell you about my top secret board stash
In all honesty I have no idea. All this stuff comes out of 2 storage lockers. The owner of the place called me and wanted me to clean it out for him.
90% of the unit is old machine controllers. I assume these boards are from one of those. there were about 10 old computers and 1 server in there. About 10-15 monitors.
I also have a bunch of big 3 phase motors and transformers sitting in the back of the truck waiting for the scrap yard to open tues. I would guess about 1000lbs of that right now.
Oh yea and aqbout 100 old ball mice. It is in one big mess of wire. I really need to get some complete pictures.

[happyscraper]

I'm not the expert but I would take the chips off and sell seprate, I don't think it would down grade the board.