Recently picked up a motherboard and RAM Parts/Repair combo for under $55. Was supposed to be a Z270 board and 8GB of RAM (2x4GB sticks), but what I actually received was a Z270 board and 16GB of RAM (2x8GB sticks).
Board was a bit of a mess, thermal paste in the CPU socket covering several pins and 6-10 pins that were bent slightly out of alignment. I'm thinking the CPU slipped out of their fingers when they were upgrading it, or swapping the CPU (or cleaning thermal paste off?) and bent the pins and got paste in the socket at the same time.
Managed to bend the pins back to alignment and clean the thermal paste out of the socket and get this baby running again (with a Celeron, as it was all I had on hand that was compatible with this socket and chipset). Taught me a way to clean thermal paste out of a socket, so that may be a useful skill that may come in handy again.
Board and memory seem stable thus far.
Refilled the dewars and gonna have some nerdfun 
