@@ImanGoldRecoveryas someone who is looking on starting to extract precious metals from purely CPUs, which brand and from what years typically has the most amount of gold in? I have zero experience you see. Thankyou
@@jaysmusic3327 its best to stick with AMD based systems, but some older intel cpus have pins like this, but even cpus without pins have small gold pads on them, though you would not want to just buy old CPUs or old PCs. The real way to get into this is to bid on a large weight of E-waste. If you really want to start for just experience i would look up some local recycling centers that handle electronics. just about any electronic will have precious metal in it but Computers will have the most.
@@jaysmusic3327None, it’s typically not profitable for the gold. There’s absolutely no gold in there, u will get 99% copper. The gilded layer is measured in micrometers. You are better off finding broken electronics in scrapyards and stripping the wires then selling the braids for money. Even the amount of copper you get isn’t sufficient.
It's a Sempron. I'd usually agree, but being the owner of one I'm not hurt by it lol. Save a few for computer museums. That's all we really need them for.
If I would have knew that back in the days when they had the IBM computer all over the streets of New York I would have took out the go out of it and made a lot of money because there was a lot of IBM computers all over the streets of New York. That's crazy. But yeah I like your videos. Keep up the good work. I appreciate you. Have a good day😊
Well, if you buy them for processing, then they are worth as much as the materials you are processing them for plus the tools and chemicals required. It worth it if done at a very large scale. America alone is throwing away around 13 billion/year alone just in gold value from scrap electronics. On the other hand, its better to recycle than to dig for it...even if you consider money and time I believe, not to mention impact to the environment.
@@homelessEh chemicals are easy to find. Its the process that is messed up. But its doable and worthwhile if you can process a few tons/month. That of course implies more costs in machines and people, but at that point you could be doing only measurements to sustain the process instead of hard labour.
You’re probably never going to break even from the cost of the cpu. Idk how much the copper is worth but for most cpu’s, you’ll get about 20 dollars worth of gold for each one. And considering copper is 3 dollars per pound, you won’t even get that for one cpu. Maybe you could break even if you got a super old Intel cpu
Well the people doing this are not buying cpus on ebay or something. They're buying e-waste for pennies per pound, a lot of developing nations buy e-waste from Europe and North America just to do things like this or repackage what they salvage into some kind of product. Either way i think this is a cool video if you have some old as dirt computer laying around in your garage or basement it would be fun to turn it into a little nugget of gold.
I think the main point of recovery gold from old electronic components is if you will spend more recovering that gold than the value of the gold you recover. If so, it's a very bad deal.
@@UnderqualifiedPilotwhen your only getting $5 of gold max from a cpu it's up for debate whether or not the cpu lives could be extended by working in an office or something
@@Engiduck No these are cpus probably recovered from buying e-waste, and while cpus generally keep working longer than other pc components these hold no real market value other than their raw materials. When it comes to old cpus they dont have much value even to retro gamers, they would rather buy a refurbished console or just use an emulator with modern hardware. Even old PC games you can just run a Virtual Machine with an old windows install on it and play older PC games in their original code without software emulation
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This is a cool video, it's nice to see someone is putting these things to use and they aren't rotting in a landfill. This would be a fun little project for someone with an old PC laying about to turn it into a little nugget of gold.
Love all the comments laughing or making fun of this. I could easily get 200 CPU’s from trashed old computers and industrial machines, through my work. This is a fantastic idea!
Some one tell me how those boards, and electronic resistors, processors, chips can allow me to do all tbe things computers can do? So it transfers raw electricity and creates video, plays games and so on? HOW does that make sense?
I’m not knowledgeable in computers at all, but I think I can answer. so computers store data in 1s and 0s 1s = true 0s = false. And thousands of those 1s and 0s can store data as electricity or magnetism, a good example is morse code, which is only two values, “-“ and “.” But they can make up letters, which can make up full words, which then can make up sentences, and finally full statements. Which is similar to how code works, but I’m not delving into that yet. Now think of the memory cards and hardware as batteries for the data, storing it until it can be used. The data moves through the hardware like they’re circuits, because they are, the data moves through as electricity and goes to different parts of the computer for different purposes, the graphics card for graphics, memory for memory, and most importantly the cpu, which is the “brain” of the computer and handles pretty much everything, speaking of cpu’s, thats actually what these are. The pins are for different functions and handle different things. Now the hardware can crunch that data so it’s usable and the data is “translated” And displayed on your monitor or whatnot. Now inputs from a mouse or keyboard can change that data, heres a line of pseudocode as a demonstration Var = 15 If key.down(w): Var = var + one Which is how video games work, inputs change data, for example the x and y of a character, when the x data is changed the character moves. Hope I answered your question.
