Trouble with pricing an old Lenovo motherboard

[brandon.yp28ng]

So I was upgrading my Thinkcentre M72e and I decided to get rid of the old board. Thing is, I would want to recover some cost from selling thr motherboard to pay (partly, of course) for a newer one. How should I price it? Going to take off everything anyway so don't bother about CPU/RAM/HDD etc.

Thanks in advance

 

[Darkbreeze]

How old is the board and what is the model number?

 

[brandon.yp28ng]

The small form factor atx one from 2010-ish with win7 onboard and with i3 stock

 

[Darkbreeze]

That's only hundreds of possible models. The model number should be printed directly on the board somewhere. Without that, anything anybody suggests is going to be an entirely unlikely shot in the dark.

I will state what to most of us will be pretty obvious though. Any 2010 era motherboard is likely on it's last legs by now due to degradation of the components like the capacitors and probably even the electrical traces, and is probably worth next to nothing unless somebody has a Thinkcentre and needs that exact board. Then it might be worth 20-40 dollars to them.

 

[brandon.yp28ng]

Ok, that's enough for me. So it is basically worth next to nothing? If thats the case I'll just dump it

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, unless you find somebody who needs that exact motherboard because they have a similar system that requires the same footprint as that motherboard has, it's pretty much worthless. I'm assuming that has a proprietary motherboard form factor like most of the Thinkcentre units do, or at least some of them, but without knowing the exact model number it's hard to say for certain but given it's age there is little value to it anyhow.