OK, so the other night I was surfing E-bay and found this lot of RAM with a buy it now that I could not pass up. After I bought, I looked closer at the auction and realized that (as sort of stated) in the auction that there were no chips on the RAM.
Here is the big question.
If you were to take a stick of RAM and cleanly remove the chips from it, would it now be worth more or less than with the chips on.
First of all, let's not worry about why they were removed, they just were for some reason and I now have them. The little tiny items on the stick are still there.
If those chips are worth somewhere around $6 a pound and removed, would that not make the resulting value of the remaining board with it's gold fingers and other various gold tracings worth a bit more than the original stick of RAM per pound? I would take a picture and post it, but it basically looks like the chips were never populated to begin with. Running my finger over where the chips were on some of the boards I can barely feel that there had indeed been chips on them at one time. But to look at them, some of them almost look like they had never been populated at all, even though I am pretty sure they were and all removed. Funny thing is that none of them show any damage at all. I would think that chiseling off the chips in a manner that almost leaves no trace of their presence, would have left other marks on the board., but these things are clean as a whistle.
Looking for some opinions on this and what they may be worth. Especially from Noble or Barren, but any thoughts are welcome for this discussion.
I have fingers out to a couple of buyers to get their prices on these.
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