520's Scrap Finds

I connected with a guy that basically collected everything the IT department at his work would give him between 1990 and 2010. He filled a big storage unit. Now he is tired of paying for the unit and is downsizing his collection.



This was a small truck load because I had trash cans and buckets from this mornings scrap yard run in the bed. Maybe 25 mother boards. A lot of them with this intel 486 cpu still on the board(go check ewasted's price on the 486). Boxes of slot cards, cpu's, heat sinks and fans.

I have about 5 more truck loads to pick up from this guy over the next couple weeks as he sorts out his keep items.



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All the CPU's from yesterdays pickup.

Any tricks to remove stubborn heat sinks without breaking the ceramic processors?

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Originally Posted by 520

All the CPU's from yesterdays pickup.

Any tricks to remove stubborn heat sinks without breaking the ceramic processors?

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Which heatsinks are you referring to? And in general pricewise best to leave CPUs as they are

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Which heatsinks are you referring to? And in general pricewise best to leave CPUs as they are

First pic top row on the right next to the broken CPU.

Originally Posted by sledge

Heat gun and a bit of patience. Heat will loosen the crusty old thermal paste and you can gently pry off the heatsink. Then to give them a nice shine- goo gone will take off the old thermal paste.

I was thinking heat would do it but wasn't sure if heat would just dry out the paste even more. Thanks for the tip!