Worth my time removing the metal top from CPU's?

**scrapperben** · 09-26-2012, 09:28 AM

i've been doing a bunch of dell pc's this week and every cpu is stuck and all I can pull off is a chip that has gold dots,
the pins are stuck, so what are these then? would these be classed higher then plain motherboard?

**Jeremiah** · 09-26-2012, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by scrapperben

i've been doing a bunch of dell pc's this week and every cpu is stuck and all I can pull off is a chip that has gold dots,
the pins are stuck, so what are these then? would these be classed higher then plain motherboard?

I sounds to me like you are pulling out pinless processors, very common in mid 2000 Dells. Just leave the pins in the cpu socket and sell the pinless processors. Always be careful that you are not scrapping duel core or higher processors. If this is the case, you shouldn't be scrapping the computer at all. It should be sold as it.