in a few small card board boxes. Don't care about scratched packages, all are functional.

paper and cardboard are natural ESD.

Cheers,

Typically I like to have them installed in motherboards in storage.

I don't have many loose processors, but the ones I do have I store in anti-static bags in a plastic bin.

I have looked into cases with dividers (like small parts bins), but unfortunately I can't find any with sizes that work for typical 486 / Pentium era processors.

In original cpu trays.

Robin4 wrote on 2023-02-05, 02:02:

In original cpu trays.

Does it have trays for all sockets? 478, 423 etc...

Where possible, I use OEM trays as well. Halfway through moving home at the moment, so no pics 😀

A mix of all of the above.

For Slot-1, it's bare in a box, for socketed, if possible in an original tray, if not, I picked up some small boxes with some sponge cussioning to protect from mechanical damage and add some ESD protection.

I store them in mixed ways, similar to above.
Best way imo is using (original) CPU trays. When I don't have proper CPU trays, then whenever possible I store them in small ESD bags.
In some cases I have them in individual storage containers, but I have wayyy too few of those.

Have good experiance with that kind of sorting boxes. Used for all kind of socket cpus like 5, 7 and 370. If you don't shake them the pins of the cpus inside shouldn't be damaged. The Polypropylene is antistatic.

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/tru-components-ekb … st-1566890.html

https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php … der=asc&start=0

Got a bit fed up of rummaging and bent pins on my small vintage cpu collection..
but found some A4 sized printer paper storage boxes on t'interweb which looked promising...and were deep enough to line the bottoms with black anti static foam...soft enough for pin insertion with gentle pressure.
Sadly my 486 overdive chip plus socket 1 and other obscure cpus had to remain a large biscuit tin. due to height restrictions.
The cpu's still need a clean but certainly this will make life easier I think.
What other geeky solutions have you guys come up with...I'm curious.
These tray boxes with lids are great for 4116 ram and cache chips etc....but that's another story.
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I try to keep important CPUs in their respective motherboards .. even in storage, its the safest place for them. Aside from that I use a similar box setup like yours with ESD safe foam base and a thin ESD safe foam topper, keeps them from moving around.

Bigger CPUs wait fans attached get a foam type of backing that the pins can push into and then shoved into ESD bags and stored in a shoe box that has bubble wrap in the bottom. Wish I knew what the foam was as a lot of CPUs I get from eBay come with it, its my only way of getting more till I can figure out what its called. (its almost like the foam they shove flowers into but not as brittle)

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TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-07, 11:11:

I try to keep important CPUs in their respective motherboards .. even in storage, its the safest place for them. Aside from that I use a similar box setup like yours with ESD safe foam base and a thin ESD safe foam topper, keeps them from moving around.

Bigger CPUs wait fans attached get a foam type of backing that the pins can push into and then shoved into ESD bags and stored in a shoe box that has bubble wrap in the bottom. Wish I knew what the foam was as a lot of CPUs I get from eBay come with it, its my only way of getting more till I can figure out what its called. (its almost like the foam they shove flowers into but not as brittle)

I think it's just "ESD foam sheets" or something.
I considered buying some when I bought a couple hundred ESD bags a year or 2 ago, but for some reason I didn't (probably because it was out of stock at the time and I didn't want to wait. Or it was beyond my budget and I wanted the ESD bags more as they were on sale or something and ended up never doing a second order of ESD stuff).