Anything worth salvaging in a dead motherboard?

[Reel]

My motherboard, a giga-byte 7vrxp, died and I replaced it. Now I have a dead motherboard and I have neither the equipment nor the expertise to trace the problem down to component levels and attempt to fix it. Are there pieces on a dead motherboard worth salvaging before throwing it out or are there people out there that would buy a dead motherboard?

 

[yoda291]

if you care little for the environment, computer scrapyards will pay out like 1.2 cents a lb for scrap computer hardware.

 

[boyRacer]

Capacitors?

 

[Eli]

Not unless you're pretty serious into EE and/or building electronics gadgets.

Sell it on eBay. You might make a couple bucks.

People will actually buy dead everything.. heh.

 

[Red Dawn]

The Battery

 

[Gravity]

So sad.

 

[AvesPKS]

You could disconnect all the capacitors, run them all together in parallel, and make a shocker of some kind. One time, while clearing out an old school, we found a really old IBM server (it took 7.~" floppies). We found a couple of .6F capacitors in it, and grabbed one.

 

[shimsham]

fans/heat sinks?

 

[squirrel dog]

wall decor.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Ebay it, someone out there will probably buy it and end up replacing parts and getting it to run again.

 

[brtspears2]

Jumpers and battery.

 

[illusion88]

break off a piece and make a key chain!

 

[Amorphus]

capacitators, and then burn the rest to salvage the gold contacts.