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The collectors value on those top 5 chips is worth well more than the miserable gold inside. A pentium pro for example contains about a gram of gold, but is worth more than the gold value on Ebay.
This presentation was alright, but it would have been better (for me) if you would have broken it down to tell how many cpu's were in a kilo and/or how much individual cpu's were worth.
I am an ewaste scrapper also got a lot of knowledge watching your video...... Very nice hope to see top ten valuable circiut board on your next upload thanks
So sad that this is what is happening to all of these old CPUs. Anything pentium 1 and earlier should be preserved if it's not broken. Since they are starting to become quite collectible and valuable.
Yeah I guess, I'm a collector so I keep all my ceramic CPU's as there's a lot more things to get gold from, one day i'll do a video on my collection, I think you'll be impressed with what i've preserved ;)
only issue is that i dont like them in boxes because the pins can get bent. i put mine each on a little piece of styrafoam to keep them from bending. i think anything pentium 3 or older should be kept
eWaste Ben I think I just acquired a Toshiba laptop . I think it might be one of the first ever laptop's and it comes in its bag with lots of books connected to the use and running of it . Any idea of value. Obviously I'm not going to scrap it
Had to watch yet again. I'm separating my cpu's hoping to do some gold recovery next summer. Been stocking up on ewaste since I watched your first video almost 3 years ago!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
a lot of the CPUs there is worth a LOT more then the "gold value" as is for ppl that collect them or use them. the i8086 "ceramic/non gold" ones is 25$ and up for one. the same with most of thees CPU's. unless they r damage don't take them apart. complete system boards and so on as well. some of the boards you r taking apart can cost 500$ and more to replace.
I'd rather have $500 for gold scrap tomorrow than sit on what amounts to nothing more than trinkets for possibly YEARS at a time to find the right buyers to make $1500. You should watch his other videos before making a comment based on ignorance. Better yet, YOU try and scrap professionally sitting on piles of shit for years on end and see how you do. See if you even have any shelf space left after a few months. When I was a kid my dad used to tell me that something is only worth what a man is willing to pay for it. When you find a few POUNDS of old processors, good luck selling even a few for your $25 a pop.
Lol....I have CPU's I've been sitting on for over 15 years. I bought them for $40 at 200 cpus. I bought 4 lots for a total of $160 15 years ago. I just sold each lot (of 4) for $600. So when you say there is no money to be made then I can assume you have absolutely no patience at all. Collecting is just not for you. It's called an investment.
Personally I would sell them and then use the cash to buy Fine Gold without having the need to process, recover and refine. There is no requirement that you must keep the paper money...which I do agree will ultimately decline in purchasing power. Of course my Fine Gold is marketable whereas it is much more difficult to sell or barter with Gold Plated crap. But feel free to do as you please.
from 4.96kg mix 3&2 43g Au, or 8.67g Au/kg at least that was my yield AMD K5 (gold top & bottom) 6.48g Au/kg AMD 486 5.73g Au/kg AMD 386 9.69g Au/kg AMD Duron ceramic 2.2g Au/kg IBM 686 and Cyrix 686 2.95g Au/kg Intel Pentium Pro 256KB 4g Au/kg
Is there a way to know if they work without running windows? There are a lot of these processors but it's hard to test if you don't have an adequate motherboard with it.
So i watched a few vid's on extracting gold etc from electronic's. I can't get my head round that the energy used would make it pointless, unless on an industrial scale. I watched a guy burning it in his back yard, (very environmental) then rolling in a old gas drum for 2 days for 1 gram per kilo. I wonder what the hourly rate of pay would be for doing so?
Nice! Can't find goldcapped CPU-s, especially Pentium Pro's near here Thanks for this Process. ;) I WAS collecting CPUs for Years, yet I haven't been able to finy any that wasn't overpriced.
The Ch1ck3n It is US Dollars if you had LISTENED TO HIM...which YOU...apparently did NOT. And Nathaniel Clark... How hard is it to divide the price by 2.2 if you want the price per pound? You cannot do that in your head? There are roughly 2.2 Pounds per Kilogram. What a shame that you have to think.
bcmasur Stop right now. CPU are VERY robust and have a 99% rate to be working (if the pins are intact). You can test it by looking at it: - Lack of a pin? = scrap. - Otherwise, it works and should be sold on eBay at a far greater price.
how much gold can be recovered from one chip. meaning how much should one pay for one of these chips? about 3-5 dollars each or would that still not be profitable? I know their value for collection is higher but I'm just wondering if I were to try this experiment how much per chip I should pay to not be completely throwing my money into a hole.. but I would like to try this for fun.. great video to follow.. thanks for your hard work in making it for us :D
Where do you find these cpus? Is it just your luck from computers or tvs? I’m really interested to know where you find them from and how many of them you need to make up a kilo. And also if these are worth more money working, how would you test them to see if they work?
awesome vid as i just came across a ton of old comps and CPU's plus i was getting ready to ask u about this n the older comps n now u have vids go figure
Ben, I finally hit the jackpot with a house clean out....I've got many of these, and larger but similar, CPUs now. From studying eBay sales I've learned to mix a few of these, a dozen larger green fiber CPUs and a couple of pounds of IC chips....many more bids and double the price per pound. Back to my jackpot....3 Apple IIe computers, 3 Osborne computers, 4 Apple iBooks in great condition, a Commodore 64 with peripheral drives and such....and much, much more including factory sealed items. And then there were the dozens of mother boards, hard drives (12 Fujitsu 1 TB new drives amongst them)' and in and in. I know you guys get this kind of load on a regular basis, but is one took me to the next level. Possibly $1000 American $ in just the new and vintage....who knows on the 100+ scrap boards and hard drives.
nice score! these pick up's are what keeps us going, keep at it and more will come, i'm happy your researching your stuff and not just scrapping, lot's more value as collectables
#4 is actually a math co-processor. I've got a few of those in my Amiga computers. They actually still bring good prices on ebay. Don't melt those down.
I had an Athlon very much like that ceramic one on number 9. I wish they would make CPUs with ceramic more. I also had a Pentium and those are some tough packages.
Nice video! I wish I had this Intel 8086 to make a video for my channel! I think we would have a very detailed look at the circuits under the microscope! I've made a video on my channel with an IBM processor with release date "1996" and we have a good look at its circuits under 200X magnification!
Sorry my last post was so long but I'm still excited due to the response (and sales) I've been getting over the past week. One item I picked up (everything was free, by the way), was a 5 X 5 inch white ceramic CPU (?) looking piece.....it is about a half inch thick and heavy. loaded with gold pins. The interesting part was that it was encased in an aluminum "heatsink" which, when I took it apart, had 30 or more large, solid copper cylinders encased in oil.....and ideas what this is?? It was sitting on it's own so I have no idea what it came out of.....thanks, Patrick
+Dominic Beasley Oh the K5 has 2 version, ceramic with gold cap & ceramic no cap, so no cap is just like a pentium certamic, the gold cap would go the same as a cyrix I guess.
I could cry when I see what is happening to those wonderful retro computer CPUs! They should be stored in a safe place NOT to be destroyed so that they last for another 30 to 40 years... :(
To destroy BROKEN hardware is extremely valueable not only in scrap but to remove junk from possible circulation. We don't want to waste time juggling broken hardware.
Out with the old in with the new. Why keep old slow processors when you can have new fast ones? Alos they are not getting wasted they are being put to another use, *GOLD!!!*
So, I know the values are different now, but I have a bunch of the intel 486 & 386 CPU’s. I don’t want to do gold recovery myself. So what in your opinion would be the best way to get the most value for them? Here in the US, I was wondering about Boardsort or selling them on eBay or are CPUs something you could take to a jewelry & sell for the gold?
Seriously?! Motorola 68020/68030/68881/68882 are worth $15-$50 per chip, depending on the modell and specs. Also: 8088/8086 in gold-ceramic fetch quite a collectors value these days. Totally not worth it.
You'll always get the lowest value in the form of scrap. If the CPUs are working and useable you'll make more selling them as a functional CPU. That rule applies to all things
Thank you so much!!! There is a guy on youtube saying that scrapping these computers is worthless I can see he is very very wrong.. I'm going into scrapping thanks to your video. Why people won't work for themselves I don't know. its stupid not to with all this free money and metals just laying around. most schools will give you all their old computers for nothing.
no gold is gold and what me and my friend do is turn them into Gold bars. Believe me silver bars and gold bars sell fast to smart people. If your selling to idiots friends or family lol. You'll get burned out. The right place pays top dollar. I watched a guy offer to sell a 100 oz bar of silver for $25.00 he just wanted to prove how dumb people were they all laughed and ignored him. Then he went to a coin exchange and got $1600 cash brand new 100 dollar bills. he filmed the whole thing.
In some of the new server blades are cpus with golden heat spreaders, massive amount of gold. Server blades of a value of 1 million dollar, crazy shit when these things go to recycle
Your terminaligy for the AMD aluminum comparison to the AMD Ceramic Athlon Thunderbirds and Duron Thunderbirds is incorrect because that's not a heatsink on the AMD Aluminum K6, K6-2 or K6-3 it's a heatspreader because there is a difference if not a major one. Gold Caps for the Cyrix probably isn't the right terminalogy either as those are at least now considered processor lids, but considering processors were different then with the socket 7 vs the LGA socket 1366 and it's followups maybe you're right.
I have a CPU that is big, huge gold cap and a smaller gold cap on the bottom, that is bigger than most top caps. As well as four fat rows of pins. how much is that worth?? Over twice the visible gold as any you have show.
50$US/kg = 0.05$US/g Gold price is about 50$/g, which means there is 0.001 g of gold /g of CPU. How much does each CPU weight? I estimate 50 g, so it is 2.50$ of gold per CPU. 0.05 g of gold per CPU. Density of gold = 19.3 g/cm3 So volume of 0.05 g of gold is 0.0026 mL = 2.6 uL (This is a tiny drop) 1 g of gold occupies 0.052 mL of volume.
no your using the wrong figures, your basing gold content on what refiners pay for cpu's, not what they get from cpu's. there's 2.5g - 8g of gold per 1kg of ceramic cpu's
eWaste Ben So if the value of gold is 50$/g, then 1 kg of CPUs can have a value of 125$ to 400$ of just gold. How about recycling christmas lights? It has gallium in the LED crystal. It is like a 1 mm cube per LED. With 1000 LEDs, you can have 1 cm3 of crystals. I bought 100 g of Ga for 158$. Value for gallium is around 1.50$ to 2.50$ per g.
What would be the value of the plugs of telecom components ? The plugs normally are attached on cable but if you cut the cable of what be the aprox value ?
Precious metals over "collectible" cpus. I would venture to say, golds value over time will hold value more than old cpus. Thanks for the vid by the way
It's be great to see top 11 to 20 or 11 to 30. If you already addressed this in future vids I'll see it in time as I'm going through all your videos again. I'd like to see where the more common ones stand. I was shocked that the Pentium Pro wasn't #1! Probably because of size.
On my birthday a couple of weeks before my previous post, a friend of mine knock on my door to drop off another computer only this one was twice the size of your average computer. I looked at all the dates on the pc they ranged from 1989 to 1992, so I know I had something that was at least 25 years old! I opened it up the first thing I went to was the CPU it was the "Intel 486" I didn't know exactly what I had till 1. I asked Ben on a new video from Aug. of '18 he said it's a real good one. 2. I remembered the top 10 CPU's video so I watched it again and was pretty stoked to see it at #3 spot!!!
I subscribe to The Computer Collectors Code of Conduct , but if it has bent pins I'll save it for scrap , Otherwise I would Never Scrap good working Computer Parts , They are worth more as a Working Part :) QC
Funny, that MC68882RC20A Motorola is highly sought after in the Amiga scene, if they pop up you've got to pay about 25 to 50 usd a PIECE for that math coprocessor. Imagine how much more you could make selling a kilo of those seperately instead of getting the gold out of it. Same goes for the gold pin 8086, last one I tried to get my hands on (and failed) got a final bid of 125 euro's just for one cpu on German ebay (first generation intel white ceramic+gold).
I will keep my Cyrix, and Pentium Ceramics as CPUs. Let the gold recovery fever do its job, then put them on ebay and chash them at a ridiculous price because they are hard to find. Pentium Pros rocketed in value because of that.
+filmilaager don't think there is 10 non ceramic cpu's, the black fibre in this video is non ceramic so that might be #1. the current p4 pinless are all the same in scrap value, even a quad core has the same scrap value but because they are current, they sell as cpu's still, so no I don't think a top 10 fibre cpu list is possible
This is ordered by value per weight-unit (kilos or pounds) and not by value per individual CPU. And to all the idjits saying the CPUs are worth more selling on eBay, not if they are fried CPUs!!! DUH, this is why we're doing this: FRIED CPUs. And.. don't forget all the other legacy electronics out there! This game isn't limited to just CPUs! RAM, other components, CELL PHONES... the older the better.
It ticks me off actually. These CPUs have more value in use than as "gold recovery" which, by the way, costs money as well. The extraction process is neither easy nor cheap. The thing is, people throw old pc's out on the curb each year and I used to pick them up to refurbish or actually use. Now, the CPU is striped from them before I get there. Ticks me off.
