Server Board category

I always like to see how other people grade their boards. In the years that I have sold Escrap I have learned that every buyer grades different. How do you or your buyers grade this server board?

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Some buyers have a category for dual socket server boards, i think its around $6 pound. You might have to remove that heatsink and battery though to get that pricing.

I find it interesting.... I have seen some grade them as low grade server boards because they are pentium 4 dual socket... Some call them high grade... The reason I ask is because we process 1000's of these servers with these boards. It makes a huge difference when you sell couple thousand lbs at a time. Over the years I have sold to a lot of buyers and they all seem to grade certain things different.

The metal heatsink retainers will also need to be removed on the bottom. I go by the theory that all that glitters is gold unless proved otherwise. Double the cpu sockets and more ram slots puts the board at a higher grade than a standard motherboard.

If those boards are dual 771 and they work they might bring better than scrap prices. 771 socket should accept quad core xeon chips, so that means those boards are still valuable

I would agree with you that these should be high grade

I sell them to my buyer as dual socket server boards at around $4.50 a lb but I don't have to take anything off my boards batt, heat sink, plastic and all stays on them.