Vintage Tech - February Motherboard Scrap Haul Testing & Repair - PART 2/2

[@HBAVHS]

Dank dir. 👍👍👍

[@f.k.b.16]

Your channel is extremely underrated

[@HBAVHS]

That's exactly how I see it. From a technical aspect it is one of the best. I could watch him all day

[@Oerg866]

thank you so much for the kind words ♥♥

[@Shmbler]

Biggest respect for replacing those slots. I did that once with a corroded PCI slot and ot took me hours. Btw, personally I would prefer no distracting background music while you're talking. But maybe that's just signs of me aging ;-)

[@Oerg866]

That's a fair point! :) I experimented a while back with "silent" videos but they don't seem to appeal to people as much :(

[@NSHG]

I have a fully recapped K7VZA here. Great board if you need KT133A on the cheap.

[@RetroTinkerer]

Hello! What you do with all these repaired parts, it's always worth value wise or part of the value is the entertainment and knoweledge you gain from the diagnosis and repair?

[@Oerg866]

Depends, but mostly both actually! I also tend to give boards to other people if they need them, or sometimes cheap/uninteresting ones I sell for cheap :) I get a lot of satisfaction from fixing even weird cheap boards and other components, so that makes it worth it. Value wise, some of them aren't technically worth it. But objectively speaking I never come out of scrap deals with a "net loss" :D For example, that ECS K7VZA was definitely *not* worth investing the time in. But it was a lot of fun anyway! But the worth of the whole scrap set is offset by the MSI ALI board and the Slot A stuff (which doesn't fully work yet sadly)

[@RetroTinkerer]

@@Oerg866 cool I have so much stuff to recap that I can't even get my head around to try repairs but people like you are always a great inspiration!