average weight of motherboards

**ozzy214** · 10-31-2011, 07:27 PM

Just a rough idea. Whats the average weight of a motherboard? Im too cheap to buy a scale and trying to figure out if the load I have is enough to cover the gas to jersey to my buyer.

**harrisvh** · 10-31-2011, 08:04 PM

most ones seem to weigh around 600 grams

**PartTimeScrapper** · 10-31-2011, 09:06 PM

Yeah ive found on average about 1.25 lbs But ive had a server board weigh at 4 lbs.

**harrisvh** · 11-01-2011, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Yeah ive found on average about 1.25 lbs But ive had a server board weigh at 4 lbs.

Whats the average weight of server boards? I passed on 70 servers + a load of other bits for $450 because I didn't know how much they weighed.

**easyrecycle** · 11-01-2011, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by harrisvh

Whats the average weight of server boards? I passed on 70 servers + a load of other bits for $450 because I didn't know how much they weighed.

Fast math with out seeing a photo..they paid you $2.40 cents a pound...thats if they where 2pounds each...most likely it was more or less 2 to 3pounds each.

**harrisvh** · 11-01-2011, 11:07 AM

ah so they weigh roughly twice that of normal motherboards on average? Hmm i could have made that work... as there were many other items as well. + all the hard drives, memory and cpus from the boards. They come up with stuff every few weeks so at least now I know. Thank you.

**easyrecycle** · 11-01-2011, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by harrisvh

ah so they weigh roughly twice that of normal motherboards on average? Hmm i could have made that work... as there were many other items as well. + all the hard drives, memory and cpus from the boards. They come up with stuff every few weeks so at least now I know. Thank you.

Well there are e-waste buyers on this forum that would be more than happy to buy your scrap. With us being one of them.

**easyrecycle** · 11-01-2011, 08:07 AM

Motherboards rul of thumb is 1 pound.

You have some that are far more...some that are far less. But when you add them all up it comes out to about 1 pound each.

How many pounds do you have? I may like to place a bid on them if you did not mind.

**Scrapette** · 11-01-2011, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

Motherboards rul of thumb is 1 pound.

You have some that are far more...some that are far less. But when you add them all up it comes out to about 1 pound each.

How many pounds do you have? I may like to place a bid on them if you did not mind.

Easyrecycle, do you pay shipping?

**easyrecycle** · 11-01-2011, 04:20 PM

Thats based on a per load deal.

There is nothing called free shipping or anything being free.

We can work with you tho to help you out but again this is on a per base deal. Send us an e-mail and let us know what you have and what you need.

**ScrapperStoke** · 11-02-2011, 04:42 AM

Most companies will pull the drives for security reasons. I just finished a virtualization project and here is my prize. As you can see, the drives are pulled and marked for destruction. Trying to get the wire also but don't know. Don't know what I am going to do with all the steel either.

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**PartTimeScrapper** · 11-02-2011, 06:17 AM

Take the steel to the scrap yarrd and sell it. 10 cents a pound here.

**easyrecycle** · 11-02-2011, 06:29 AM

Not a bad load from what I can see. Those servers there on the left hand side (I count about 13 of them in the photo) have a high grade mother board in them. About 3 pounds each.

**ScrapperStoke** · 11-03-2011, 06:44 AM

And one to two power supplies and one to to processors and four to eight DIMMs and...Don't know whether to part them out or just flip them. Decisions...decisions...

**bjybjy** · 11-03-2011, 07:31 AM

The last server that looked like that that I scrapped had a solid copper heat sink. Weighed over 3 lbs.

**faulguy** · 11-03-2011, 09:02 AM

If the servers worked, you might part them out on Ebay. Since shipping is so expensive on servers, working motherboards can go for more than a complete server. Also sell the rails on Ebay. My advice on those would be to sell complete sets. As somebody that's had to buy rails on ebay, I hate it when sellers list the server-side part separate from the cabinet part.
Other parts to sell on ebay for more than scrap value are the fans (most servers give annoying beeping alarms when a fan goes out or is unplugged) , power supplies and cd/dvd drives. Also check to see if any of the servers have expansion cards such as ILO remote management or SCSI or Fiberchannel cards. You might be able to sell matched pairs of processors and higher capacity ram as well.
Another option would be to resell to a refurbisher such as nautilusnet.com.

**ScrapperStoke** · 11-03-2011, 10:53 AM

I'm a systems eng. at this company...that's how I got my hands on these. I get half right off the bat, IBM 330, 335, and 336s plus a few oddball HP/Dell. The 40 - 50 3550s I will have to bid on I think. Also trying to get the drives...I would have to Nuke them all though. There are also a few big drawers full of RAMBUS I might snag also.

Hope it all works out...just loaded the first 30-40 server in the truck...glad its a GMC 2500...sitting kind of loooow. lol

**faulguy** · 11-03-2011, 10:56 AM

Nice. And here I am working as a programmer for a small company. Hurry up and get rid of that first truck load so you can bid on the others...

**Torker Man** · 11-03-2011, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by ScrapperStoke

I'm a systems eng. at this company...that's how I got my hands on these. I get half right off the bat, IBM 330, 335, and 336s plus a few oddball HP/Dell. The 40 - 50 3550s I will have to bid on I think. Also trying to get the drives...I would have to Nuke them all though. There are also a few big drawers full of RAMBUS I might snag also.

Hope it all works out...just loaded the first 30-40 server in the truck...glad its a GMC 2500...sitting kind of loooow. lol

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