I found a P3 700MHz Socket 370 CPU out of nowhere and I want to sell it on eBay. (It works BTW)

Just on the rare chance that it does sell, what are some things I need to protect the pins on that sucker?

bubble wrap and more bubble wrap.

I'm no expert on packing a CPU, but here's my advice.

I would say a soft piece of foam is a good thing to GENTLY set the the pins in. Then put two pieces of sturdy cardboard to go on either side of the CPU/foam. Tightly tape all that up. Then surround it with a 1-2 layers of bubble tape which you then tape equally tight. Then more bubble tape around all that which you eventually tape in place. Finally, the usually filler materials such as styrofoam peanuts.

Just my .

i knew there would be bubble wrap somewhere in there.

Radioshack sells 5inch by 5inch squares of Integrated Circuit insulation foam. It's designed to hold all the pins in shape while an IC isn't plugged into a socket. I couldnt find a link on their site, but they should have it in stores. I bought a piece a while back to hold all my spare chips in shape while they're sotred away. Even if you don't buy it from there, you can still go look at it to get an idea of what it is.

And bubble wrap. Just make sure no static electricity gets in there. Ask your carrier if they have a special classification for static-sensitive packages. They might even have all the packaging you need for it.

I thought about it, and what I'd do (only since I have the means all around me) is I'd take an old P3 mobo, and stick the CPU in the slot, pack it up in about 4-5 layers of bubble wrap, and send it taht way. I'm not sure ifyou have a bad mobo to send it in though, but that's what i'd do.

or just rip the socket off of a bad mobo. save $$ on shipping something that big.

or if you want, just buy a cheap socket adaptor

Your best choice would be the little box in which new processors come. They have this black smelly foam in which you seat the pins so they cannot bend. I have stored a Wilamette P4 1.7GHz in one from an AMD Athlon 64 for in case I ever find a working mobo for it

i'll give you 5 bucks for it

Sometime ago, we were prepare a place for somoene with ten boxes, we bought the processors (P4) and gave them to him to keep them until we get the other components, when we un packed the processors we find 6 of them have bend in there pins, we fixed them manually we got five of six fixed, and the last one lost a pin, but we got it fixed in a hardware maintenance company after about a month.but it was hard to fix this pins, we were feel dangerous lol

I'd definently get the black foam, although I use the little plastic cases the processors came in to hold all my screws

why not use the little bags screws come in to hold all your screws?

Well, there's no real advantage to using bags over the plastic boxes... so I just stick with the plastic boxes.