You can figure out if it's worth your time to tear them down. I got a load of server hard drives that had some pretty substantial boards on them. For comparison I weighed 5 of them whole. Then I removed the boards and weighed the 5 boards and the 5 drives separate. Then based on a buyers pricing I calculated the difference ( I wish I had the figures handy) and I could see, that for me , in this case it was worth it to remove the boards. I could have gone further but I believe for me at this time it's not worth the time and effort to tear them down more. Keep in mind these boards were beefier than your normal SATA or IDE boards so your milage may vary.
Like CTscrapman says do alittle research to formulate your own conclusion only you know what your time is worth.
CTscrapman -looked at your posting time - a case of insomnia or night owl ?
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