feipoa wrote:ElementalChaos wrote:
Can you really net more than $25 per CPU in gold recovery on these? The guy is asking $25/chip.
Not even close. If you watch the YouTube videos on how to recover gold from CPUs, they get *MAYBE* $10 from a "high gold" CPU. And that discounts all the equipment and consumables you need to extract it, along with your time. And by doing this at home, you create significantly more hazardous waste than happens in a large-scale professional e-waste recycling operation.
It's just sad watching videos from the people that do this - they have zero knowledge at all of what the CPUs are, other than "they are computer chips that contain a lot of gold." A guy did a "top CPUs in gold by weight" video, where he has no idea what the CPUs are called. He just calls them based on whatever is obvious about them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3MNYwoO_U
He calls the Pentium Pro properly, simply because it says "Pentium Pro" right on the headspreader. He calls some "AMD aluminum" "Intel black fibre" "Motorola"... His "most valuable" is the "Intel eight oh eight six, or eight thousand series..." Yup, a CPU that is actually hard to find and of interest to computer collectors who want WORKING items - he suggests buying to scrap to melt down to get the gold out of it...
