Storing cpu's or shipping them?

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While going through some old servers I stripped out a ton of spare parts that we dont need.. I picked out a bunch of Pentium 3 1266mhz chips and a few 1133mhz chips. As well as a few GB of pc133 ram. I was considering selling this stuff on ebay or the trade forums here but im not even sure if its worth it at all.

The main question I had is.. how do you store and or ship a cpu if you dont have the original packaging? And any idea what these may be worth to someone? They came out of Compaq servers.
 
Either keep them in antistatic bags/conductive bubble wrap or conductive foam.

There are quite a few people who need P3s for servers and whatnot around the house, if nothing else then they make good keychains.
 
I'm transporting a 3700+ athlon - I was considering chopping the socket out of a dead mobo, putting the chip in the socket, and then putting that in an anti static bag - it would protect the pins!

:)
 
Yea thats what im concerned about is the pins. Antistatic sure... but that doesnt do anything to protect the pins. Maybe I can find some foam that the pins can sink into easy.

And yea.. i was already thinkin about the keychain thing :)
 
I typically use a couple of plastic containers that have black foam in them to protect the pins. I think I got them from buying OEM procs in the past.

If you are going to sell the procs, let me know. I have a couple P3 boxes that could use a speed bump.
 
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