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Should I save or throw away my old Motherboard?

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jm

Jan 1, 1970
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It is an older pentium mobo. It is useless. Not even ebay will do
good for me. Should I just throw it away or save it for parts? I
don't know what parts on it I should get. Thanks for opinions.
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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It is an older pentium mobo. It is useless. Not even ebay will do
good for me. Should I just throw it away or save it for parts? I
don't know what parts on it I should get. Thanks for opinions.

If you're a hobbyist and like used parts with short leads, you can
strip it with a torch and a puller of some kind - wear safety goggles
and a breath mask. Take the processor, get the chip out, and make a
brooch for your lady. Be sure and get those .025 square pin headers -
you never know when you'll need one. And connectors are always handy.
Any socketed chips, of course, you just pull. At this age, I'd toss
the battery.

Have Fun!
Rich
 
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jm

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich Grise said:
If you're a hobbyist and like used parts with short leads, you can
strip it with a torch and a puller of some kind - wear safety goggles
and a breath mask. Take the processor, get the chip out, and make a
brooch for your lady. Be sure and get those .025 square pin headers -
you never know when you'll need one. And connectors are always handy.
Any socketed chips, of course, you just pull. At this age, I'd toss
the battery.

Have Fun!
Rich

Please tell me what you mean here, explain a little. Thanks:

"Take the processor, get the chip out, and make a brooch for your lady."
 
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cpemma

Jan 1, 1970
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jm said:
Please tell me what you mean here, explain a little. Thanks:

"Take the processor, get the chip out, and make a brooch for your
lady."
It's a geek thing. Solder a copper ring to some pins, fit a chain or keyring
and look cool as shit.

I'm saving my old mobos to show the grand-kids how primitive we were. ;)
 
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jm

Jan 1, 1970
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cpemma said:
It's a geek thing. Solder a copper ring to some pins, fit a chain or keyring
and look cool as shit.

I'm saving my old mobos to show the grand-kids how primitive we were. ;)
Anybody got any pictures?
 
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Spajky

Jan 1, 1970
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It is an older pentium mobo. It is useless. Not even ebay will do
good for me. Should I just throw it away or save it for parts? I
don't know what parts on it I should get. Thanks for opinions.

I use them to "canibalize" them for parts (mostly LowESR caps) for
repairing other damaged MoBo´s ...
 
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