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newattitude
Lol, even though I've read tons of threads, when I sort the ONLY thing I AM sure about is motherboards. I can't tell a small socket from a large socket and heck, they might consider something a MB that never came out of a computer tower! So I put all the MB's in one box, finger cards in another and covered with layer of newspaper and put the bagged items on top of those. another box held the rest of the ''I don't have a friggin clue how or what these are considered I just know they aren't low grade'' lmao.
**Another great transaction - shipment went out Monday, was received Tuesday am and processed by Wednesday. That might have been the fastest one yet!! Thanks again Mario and crew!!
Cindy
I do mostly pc towers and desktops because they're the easiest things to deal with in regards to recycling the whole thing.
If you look they'll give you all kinds of little clues as to the age of the machine. Pull the cd/dvd and there's usually a date of manufacture. The hard drives oftentimes have a date as well. You can go by the little sticker on the front. It might say windows 98, win me, xp, vista, or 7. You can look at the ram chips. If they have silver/tin fingers they're fairly old. If they have gold fingers and are pc-100 they are a little newer. A lot of the middle aged machines are pc-3200 through pc-6400.
You can look at the heat sink and fan sitting on top of the processor. As a rough rule of thumb it's small socket if it's got a big heat sink. Sometimes there's a date of manufacture on the processor itself.
I remember back when i bought my first PC. It was probably sometime in the mid to late 80's and cost over 1,600 $. The reason they were so expensive back then was because they had more precious metals in them. As the years went by the manufacturers got really good at building a better machine at lower cost. Part of the reason for the lower cost is that there's much less precious metal used to make them. That means less to salvage when they get scrapped out.
In a very broad way the machines made before 2001 are apt to have more goodies inside.
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