What should I do with an expensive but dead motherboard?

[Acorn Eyes]

I tried to repair a z97s krait SLI with bent pins, but it seems that the board is dead.

 

Funnily enough when I requested to return it all I mentioned was that there was a plastic RAM clip broken off that was not mentioned in the listing. 

 

Dude straight up refunded me the full amount and doesn't want a return. For a $0.10 peice of plastic.

 

Now I have a likely dead expensive board on my hands. There's a pin I'm not so sure is fixed, so there's a possibility it's not dead. But all signs point to it's dead.

 

Anyways I have a really nice motherboard that's essentially free and I don't know what to do with it.

[Himommies]

Resell

[Guest lilbman]

15 minutes ago, Acorn Eyes said:

I tried to repair a z97s krait SLI with bent pins, but it seems that the board is dead.

 

Funnily enough when I requested to return it all I mentioned was that there was a plastic RAM clip broken off that was not mentioned in the listing. 

 

Dude straight up refunded me the full amount and doesn't want a return. For a $0.10 peice of plastic.

 

Now I have a likely dead expensive board on my hands. There's a pin I'm not so sure is fixed, so there's a possibility it's not dead. But all signs point to it's dead.

 

Anyways I have a really nice motherboard that's essentially free and I don't know what to do with it.

Resell the parts of the mobo that aren't broken.  You can get a lot more for it this way, as you can sell the individual parts as repair parts.

[Acorn Eyes]

4 minutes ago, lilbman said:

Resell the parts of the mobo that aren't broken.  You can get a lot more for it this way, as you can sell the individual parts as repair parts.

I think just the 24pin connector and the CPU socket are damaged.

[Guest lilbman]

2 minutes ago, Acorn Eyes said:

I think just the 24pin connector and the CPU socket are damaged.

You could sell the IO part of the mobo, assuming you can get it off without damaging it.

[iRileyx]

I'd personally mount it on my wall above my setup or something. 

 

Some people have art and pictures, I'll have dead but cool computer hardware. 

[roylapoutre]

This is a curse. I also accidentally bent some pins on the same mobo a couple of months ago and I wasn't able to repair them. It still lies in its box, under many other boxes. I might need to do something with it if it's possible to resell the parts 

[Acorn Eyes]

1 minute ago, roylapoutre said:

This is a curse. I also accidentally bent some pins on the same mobo a couple of months ago and I wasn't able to repair them. It still lies in its box, under many other boxes. I might need to do something with it if it's possible to resell the parts 

I didn't bend them, I bought it for incredibly cheap because they were bent.

[roylapoutre]

2 minutes ago, Acorn Eyes said:

I didn't bend them, I bought it for incredibly cheap because they were bent.

Yeah I know, I was just pointing out that the same mobo had the same tragic destiny  

5 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

I'd personally mount it on my wall above my setup or something. 

 

Some people have art and pictures, I'll have dead but cool computer hardware. 

This is actually pretty awesome but you'd need an abnormal amount of dead parts to cover a wall  

[Acorn Eyes]

1 minute ago, roylapoutre said:

Yeah I know, I was just pointing out that the same mobo had the same tragic destiny  

This is actually pretty awesome but you'd need an abnormal amount of dead parts to cover a wall  

Just think of the unique wall decor tho.

 

Maybe you can luck out and get mislabeled listings on a ton of beautiful parts.

[kcihtred2]

throw it on ebay for parts. put it for like 20% under what they retail for and best offer.
I sell stuff like that all the time. like I found a iphone 5s that was smashed to pieces a year ago in a dumpster as I was taking my trash out. got like $40 for it.

continuing on that thought process I have a big storage tote that I keep in my closet. everything goes on ebay for 30 days at 10% off whatever ebay is currently selling it for. If it doesn't sell I put it on for another week at shipping plus like $10 or something small. 95% of things I would toss are sold. even stupid things like used stamps. I seriously sold 10 oz of stamps (like 3 months of junk mail) for $15.
I usually recoup like 10-15% of my income every year by doing this stupid stuff

[VagabondWraith]

I have an ASUS Maximus VII Hero mobo that has 2 ram slots that aren't working. Never got around to figuring out how to fix it or what to do with it. 

 

I think the best bet is to sell it on eBay or Craigslist or something for parts. At least get something for it.