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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
#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.
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!!!*
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
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
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.
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!!!
+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.
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
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?
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.
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 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.
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
I buy all mine from Ebay. Great place to find old CPUs. Also if you don't want to buy online and would rather "hunt" for them I would try, garage sales, flea markets, Craigslist under free items. I found a guy giving away a quad system of Pentium Pros on CL to whoever could pick it up first. Luckily the guy before me who said he would show up never did. Happiest guy that day!
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.
Where do you sell to? I'm in central Illinois (United States) and the only place I've really found is board sort. I only scrapped about 6 pc's, and have a lot of mid grade boards and peripheral boards. Cpu's, Hdd boards, a little ram, power supplies, whole hdd's, disk drives, ect. Not a ton of money... But it will cost an arm and a leg to ship this stuff to them. How does anyone make money selling smaller amounts of e-scrap?
Whenever you find a Cyrix CPU can you save at least one? those are starting to get quite a lot more rare these days because the only market for them is the scrapping market!
Yes there's more but it's a top 10. Basically it's a standard list that e-scrap buyers use, #1 is listed as 8060 series but there's probably 50 different makes & models of cpu's & dips that also fit into the same value, we just say 8060 series but covers all dip's with gold cap & legs. other cpu's also fit into one of the categories but are not common enough to mention them.
Thanks for the reply.... If you don't mind me asking, how did you compile this list when you don't actually do your own gold processing?? The intel 8 thousand series chip has less gold in it (by weight) than the intel 386 & 486 mate. I should know because I just processed a kilo of them.
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
Thank you for your videos. I inherited the personal effects of an older gentleman who had been into computers since the early 80's and never threw anything away. Among many boards and equipment I've realized because of you that I have #2 in your lineup. I love your videos. Keep it up, sir!
Hey Ben I had a pretty good score as far as slot cards from a very old computer system and I would like to get your oppinion oon the set up of the ceramic gold ic's. They are double stacked in two rows of 40. And the other card has 2 motorola gold cpus and one intel 8086 cpu. can i send you pictures some how And give me your opinion on something.
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 ?
Hey sir... have a question re: AMD K5 Double Gold Cap CPU. I can't find much on that particular cpu. Plenty on the regular metal cap but not much on the possible content of the k5 double gold cpu. Any info or direction for that processor? Thanks from 'Merica.
+Eddie Sandoval there's lot's of precious metals in electronics, and best thing is it's free except for your spare time, it's a fun and rewarding hobby for many
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.
that would have given greater perspective.
I have 3 kilo cpu for sale
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 ;)
Awesome! That's good to know.
How do you find collectors willing to pay top dollar for old CPUs?
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
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
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!!!
would be more valuable to sell them on eBay as they are to Retro PC collectors
yeah for sure
TheRailroad99 Yeah. The retro people pay a lot for some of those chips.
It is just much easier to get rid of pure gold and the market for retro parts is minuscule....
don't be so sure about that
lets sale this transformer, nooo! get the copper , logic!
The last stand will be between gold vultures and vintage collectors/re-users
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.
How do you know which one's are valuable?
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.
I would rather keep them then sell them for paper money that will only be good for wiping myself.
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
The smaller the cpu is, more Gold ratio it has. A big cpu means you're paying for many kilos of non Gold material.
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.
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
I have 150 various CPU's and found this to be very informative. Thank you Big Ben.
intel 8086 waaw was not expecting that from a SMD microcontroller, don;t scrap it they are super rare just in the non-gold form.
If you can test that it definitely WORKS, keep it. If you can prove it is a failure, SCRAP IT!
Yeah that's worth 50$ a piece
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.
Thanks Ben another great video!
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
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.
You might do all that work and no one to buy you who buy give a gud directive nt lke penny advatiser they never respond
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.
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?
#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.
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?
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
Hi, no idea what it could be without seeing it, sounds strange but interesting
You are an amazing instructor my friend!
Keep up the great work...
love that you do kilo and US dollar. Whats the value in Thai baht to hershey chocolate weight?
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.
Unsarcastically the value of a hershy bar is 1414400 baht per kilo.
Or 69.3056 baht per hershy bar
how the hell are you verified you have 9 subs wtf
All you had to do was submit a decently written letter to your partner and they'll get you verified.
Seriously?! Motorola 68020/68030/68881/68882 are worth $15-$50 per chip, depending on the modell and specs.
Also: 8088/8086 in gold-ceramic fetch quite a collectors value these days.
Totally not worth it.
he was talking about the gold recovery not the collectors value
BeGamerSl Wow, you read my post.
I have a hole bunch 8088/8086 CPUs maybe it´s time to sell them
You'll always get the lowest value in the form of scrap. If the CPUs are working and useable you'll make more selling them as a functional CPU. That rule applies to all things
Is there a way to know if they work without running windows? There are a lot of these processors but it's hard to test if you don't have an adequate motherboard with it.
Thank you so much for this video
I really liked it, it's very instructive.
Oh wow, the 8086 is gorgeous. I don't like the idea of it being scrapped!
yeah I keep all my old cpu's, it's just showing what value they have for gold but yeah, worth much more as collectibles for sure.
Nice video! I wish I had this Intel 8086 to make a video for my channel! I think we would have a very detailed look at the circuits under the microscope! I've made a video on my channel with an IBM processor with release date "1996" and we have a good look at its circuits under 200X magnification!
Lol why would you even kill 8086 cpu lol..... if it works it's worth almost 1200$
RICH MORGENSTEIN how do you test them to know if they work though?
@@StayingInYourOwnLane Put them in a known good computer and run the diagnostics.
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.
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... :(
if they are function they dont get melted i can almost guarantee, he is using this to make a living and they are worth alot more in working condition
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!!!*
@@sionsoschwalts2762 yep he is a millennial for sure
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
Are these prices for the gold after extracted or are these prices you can get for the chips w out w out extracting the gold ?
Good way to use resources thanks for sharing
Any videos on how to process the whole RAM (not just the gold fingers) and other high grade ICB's?
I have been trying to find data on Intel Xeon cpu gold content and cannot find anything on the internet that has info about it.
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
The Motorola 68882 is an FPU not a CPU -- but when you're scrapping 'em - I guess it doesn't matter much. Still a fun video.
Cool video! A very interesting perspective!
Thanks for sharing the video :)
I hope it's author will burn in hell)
It's almost like they were trying to lower the cost of manufacturing as they went along...
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.
Great video! Have you ever seen the Samsung Alpha KKB E56? Any idea where these might fall on your list?
+epsidude they'd go with the motorola's at #4
Nice job and video
can you do a video on 10 thru 20? Im just a curious sort. Great vid please keep them coming!
Thankyou Ben
what about all the big gold CPU out of main fram servers
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 have
I like this video eWaste Ben. What about AMD K5 where do they come on the list?
+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.
+eWaste Ben but gold cap has got 2 cap, top cap and bottom cap, on both sides so i think i would be worth more then cyrix.
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
How many cpu's does it take to equal 1 kilo in weight?
I have some gold cap ICs ‘SC11320CU’ however, I have no information on them. Any idea on value ?
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?
No jewelry shops don't buy gold recovery stuff like that, best to sell on ebay for max price as a bulk gold recovery lot
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.
The 8086 is worth 10 times that for collectors since they haven't made them since the early 80's.
and I scraped tons of them for iron prices. dam it man.
@@andrewstubbs6155 well you helped make them even more valuable, rip
The more I learn of how much precious metal is in computer components, the more I regret thowing all those parts away or donating them.... damn.
I agree, been in the IT industry for decades and now know why all the computers I put out front for the council cleanup disappear so quick.
Thank you 👍👍
hm, what you show as the 8086 is a 80287, which is the math coprocessor for the 80286 :-)
this is the comment i was looking for !
And the Motorola is also a maths co-processor too. :)
These CPUS are now worth far more as collectibles than they contain in gold value.
you need to give the weights of each cpu to figure value per each single cpu.
That's what I said, this video states prices per weight-unit. I also thought it was funny that dude translated value to US$ but not kilos to pounds.
no pun intended
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 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.
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
Only a dope head would scrape for gold this way instead of sell the whole CPU in ebay to someone trying to scrape for gold...
Great video very informative, But where can they be found? Dell,Hp,Apple,Asus , Acer?
Ceramic CPU's come from older pc's, usually the white box type from the 90's and before
I buy all mine from Ebay. Great place to find old CPUs. Also if you don't want to buy online and would rather "hunt" for them I would try, garage sales, flea markets, Craigslist under free items. I found a guy giving away a quad system of Pentium Pros on CL to whoever could pick it up first. Luckily the guy before me who said he would show up never did. Happiest guy that day!
look for offices or buildings closing down always find office desktops tossd into skips, electric bins.
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.
Interesting video!
2:12 the phillippines was rich back then?!
Where do you sell to? I'm in central Illinois (United States) and the only place I've really found is board sort. I only scrapped about 6 pc's, and have a lot of mid grade boards and peripheral boards. Cpu's, Hdd boards, a little ram, power supplies, whole hdd's, disk drives, ect. Not a ton of money... But it will cost an arm and a leg to ship this stuff to them. How does anyone make money selling smaller amounts of e-scrap?
It's about 75 pounds or so in Wright.
Where can those CPU's be purchased at those prices?
How many 33 year old 8086 CPUs are you going to find? Since that one was dated 1983.
And wasn't an 8086. It was an 80287.
Whenever you find a Cyrix CPU can you save at least one? those are starting to get quite a lot more rare these days because the only market for them is the scrapping market!
+Sony Trinitron I keep at least one of every different CPU I pull, have a little collection going here.
+eWaste Ben hey I get over 200kg of i486 DX 2 where the best place I can sell tham and i not talk about ebay they take to long
+MARSHALL GREENE board sort dot com
i can buy from you
thanx for the vid it helps a lot :)
Nice job
Can u do a quick update on this video whenever theres been a big increase in their values?
I want to know ....gold extracted from it 1kg is worth the money ....or this whole part (1kg) will make me that money ?
Where on earth are you gonna get a kilo of 8086 processors it would be hard to find 1
Ben, there must be 50 or 100+ different ceramic CPU's out there... How can you be so sure of this list?
Yes there's more but it's a top 10.
Basically it's a standard list that e-scrap buyers use, #1 is listed as 8060 series but there's probably 50 different makes & models of cpu's & dips that also fit into the same value, we just say 8060 series but covers all dip's with gold cap & legs.
other cpu's also fit into one of the categories but are not common enough to mention them.
Thanks for the reply.... If you don't mind me asking, how did you compile this list when you don't actually do your own gold processing??
The intel 8 thousand series chip has less gold in it (by weight) than the intel 386 & 486 mate. I should know because I just processed a kilo of them.
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.
Hi, Ben. Could you do a top 10 most valuable non-ceramic CPU´s?
+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
i cant belive this was made on 2015
Thank You Very Much, i Trust Your Accuracy.
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i need to borrow everyones computers,laptops and mobile devices. just for a few days and ill give them back when im done,
Thank you for your videos. I inherited the personal effects of an older gentleman who had been into computers since the early 80's and never threw anything away. Among many boards and equipment I've realized because of you that I have #2 in your lineup. I love your videos. Keep it up, sir!
That last chip was an 80287 maths coprocessor. More valuable WORKING.
Hey Ben I had a pretty good score as far as slot cards from a very old computer system and I would like to get your oppinion oon the set up of the ceramic gold ic's. They are double stacked in two rows of 40. And the other card has 2 motorola gold cpus and one intel 8086 cpu. can i send you pictures some how
And give me your opinion on something.
you can contact me with at weeeben@optusnet.com.au
Proof, CPU's have got better with age. More performance without the use of gold. Kind of like women. If you know what i mean. Snap Snap
a nice ppro was $1,000 at start. Most new top-line Intel CPUs through the 1990s were introduced at or near $1,000
As men get greedier, seedier and more useless.
Where can this be sold at? Who would a person contact?
Alot of these are worth more in 1 piece than in scrap, leave them be.
if they work, maybe. if they don't work, SCRAP!
bcmasur
Yes
sure, but dead old CPUs are rare
I would say the Pentium pro should be in front of the Motorola, it weighs more so its easier to get the kilogram
How many CPU’s are there in a kilo ? Or how much gold per cpu
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 ?
Hey sir... have a question re: AMD K5 Double Gold Cap CPU. I can't find much on that particular cpu. Plenty on the regular metal cap but not much on the possible content of the k5 double gold cpu. Any info or direction for that processor? Thanks from 'Merica.
there wouldn't be much more value then a 486 because it's what's inside that counts, so maybe add 15% for the extra cap
Are all of the legs gold? Or they are only covered by gold? (for number 1)
I love pulling the gold out of these things!
Great vid
i heard the first apple was solid gold
Thanks ben..Question..when you say gold pins and cap,.they are plated gold am i correct?
+bantalee2002 Yes, everything gold is plated, inside ceramics there's more
eWaste Ben Thanks. i have heard that inside the ceramic cpu's have a fine wire mesh of pure gold wire. Am i right on that?
+bantalee2002 Yeah the bonding wire is pure gold
eWaste Ben Thankyou.
This is priceless information! OMG! What the he'll have I been doing all this time!?
+Eddie Sandoval there's lot's of precious metals in electronics, and best thing is it's free except for your spare time, it's a fun and rewarding hobby for many
as long as they are defective cpu's the still functional ones are worth more then their gold content
as long as they are defective cpu's the still functional ones are worth more then their gold content
as long as they are defective cpu's the still functional ones are worth more then their gold content