Selling my CPU, how do I package it?

[skippo]

Hi,

I am trying to sell my AMD 4600+ X2 on the Bay, but don't have the small plastic case that it came in.

So my question is, how do I protect all those 939 pins from being damaged when I package it up for transit?

Cheers,

 

[Banny]

small box with foam inside. then in a Jiffy bag

 

[arknor]

jewelery box, thats what i got a amd64 3200+ in from ocuk years ago

 

[skippo]

small box with foam inside. then in a Jiffy bag

yeah that might work. cheers.

 

[Mr-White]

anit-static bag and lots of foam

MW

 

[skippo]

the funny thing is that i have the original retail box, but am just missing the cpu plastic thingy. So I guess just stick the pins in some foam. Hopefully they won't break!

 

[Snapshot]

Depends whether you want to CPU to work when it arrives or not. If you use ordinary white foam the static charge to tends to hold will probably destroy the CPU. You must put some ally kitchen foil over it first.

 

[skippo]

Depends whether you want to CPU to work when it arrives or not. If you use ordinary white foam the static charge to tends to hold will probably destroy the CPU. You must put some ally kitchen foil over it first.

Huh, so Aluminium foil round the cpu, and the pins?, and then foam around that? This sounds very precarious to me.

cheers.

 

[krisboats]

Depends whether you want to CPU to work when it arrives or not. If you use ordinary white foam the static charge to tends to hold will probably destroy the CPU. You must put some ally kitchen foil over it first.

Are you thinking of polystyrene by any chance, as opposed to actual sponge foam (which is usually coloured)?

 

[Snapshot]

I am but I wouldn't trust any foam unless I know that it has anti-static properties. The only foam I'd stick a CPU staight into is the dense black stuff designed for the job. It's over twenty years since I had my ESD training at a computer manufacturer but some things stay with you....

Huh, so Aluminium foil round the cpu, and the pins?, and then foam around that? This sounds very precarious to me.

cheers.

No, ally foil over one piece of foam then push the CPU pins into that. Another slice of foam over the top of the CPU and you're done.

 

[Banny]

they come in foam from the OEMs in the little small box's mind you 775 chips are pinless. so thats maybee why.

 

[gt_junkie]

I cut two pieces of cardboard to a size slightly larger than the chip. Then i place one piece on the pin side, the other on the IHS side and then loop sellotape over to support it. This protects the pins very well during transit.

I've done it this way around 10 times with no problems at all.

gt