Motherboard scrap prices?

Originally Posted by 520

My last post was sarcasm. To get the most monetary value from your boards you should sell them without depopulating anything. Then is you want to collect PM take the money from selling your boards and buy some gold or silver.

BTW what solder cover are you talking about on sound blaster cards? I have boxes of new sound blaster cards.

I think he's talking about the green solder mask.

Solder mask or solder stop mask or solder resist is a thin lacquer-like layer of polymer that is usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board for protection against oxidation and to prevent solder bridges from forming between closely spaced solder pads. Wikipedia



Most circuit boards have copper under the solder mask but a few have gold. There are some display boards in in certain phones I scrap that have the gold under the solder mask which means more money.