Grading and pricing circuit boards for scrap 

True so a £5 motherboard will decrease to a 15p motherboard if you remove any components so unless you can get £4.85 in precious metals its not worth depopulating in my opinion i wish i saved all my boards to sell i lost out on quite a bit of money by depopulating my mid grades

Yes it will lower the price unless if you have a good, safe and efficient method of getting the precious metals out i wouldn't de-populate the boards

Thanks man .

meh theres a few places awa just north of london or theres lots of private buyers on the uk scrap forum which theres a link in most recent videos

Just gold plated unfortunately older they are thicker the plating is they have gold wire going under the ceramic/fibre too ram is good for gold content but you need alot

Ben Houghton so what parts are solid gold? I will probably sell all my plated gold on eBay, I'm not gonna do refining with chemicals. But grinding and get just gold out is a possibility.

Everything is plated if it was solid gold it would make the products too expensive they only need to transfer a current or data so they dont need to be solid anything after 2006 is super thin plated then before that the gold is much thicker, the older ic chips are more likely to have more gold too

Ben Houghton cool, thanks Ben. I have some old computers in storage. Even a 1993 PC. 😎

Very nice i just picked up a pc that has a sticker on it saying it was last tested in 1991