Amount of Gold in CPUs

[Jedi08]

How much of Gold is in different CPUs?

Pentium 60/66
486
Pentium Pro and so on

does anybody know this?
Just want to know why they`re willing to pay so much money to melt them down

[iguana]

hi! we have 2-3 computer flea market in Kiev (Ukraine).
too many people loocking for ussr-cpu-clones and chips for melt them down.
they say there no sens to spend acids for western cpu/chips. but they buying back them for me )).
any plastic 16pin soviet chip has more gold then golden PentiumPro )).

[wepwawet]

[Unzlbunzl]

[wepwawet]

sounds much more reasonable than making gold out of soviet plastic:-)

[Unzlbunzl]

did some rough calculations or estimations. visible gold on heatspreader of pentium pro should be around 0,01 g alone, pDIP16 has 1g so much more than 1/100 of it had to be gold if the soviet chip story is true, which i doubt. (where should this gold be?)

1g gold is 20 dollars, so a little more than 1 Euro/piece is logic price for recyclers when Vinicios numbers can be trusted.

[iguana]

the most interesting is soviet ceramic capacitors. a
lot of tantalum! now price is $800-2000 per kg.

for example this room: Au 627g, Ag 3140g
http://photo.jinr.ru/photo.jsp?id=6548


anybody knows russian?
http://www.nist.ru/hr/doc/gtk/utiliz.htm

[iguana]

http://www.finishing.com/188/89.shtml - nice sourse

funny story #2
ussr computer Elbrus-2.
1977-1984
occupied 4 rooms
125 MIPS
144 mb ram
-------------
Au - 8968g
Ag - 42588g

[JAC]

The "scrap cpu gold" sellers on ebay have a nice market. Have you stopped to ask yourself why they are selling it. I see you can even buy a video showing you how to do it.

If it is so easy they why are the sellers selling huge lots of cpus in the first place? I am not talking about the small piles.. there are some very large auctions.

.. the answer is simple.. they are selling the lure of huge prize in the unknown gold value, just like a good salesman not pointing out the less desirable aspects. The reality for most is little gain and the loss of some rare cpu.

[iguana]

What do you thinking about recycling?
My first idea - it is vandalism
But next idea - they makes CPUs rare! they assist in our hobby. when no recycling everybody had 4004.

[JAC]

Everybody has 4004 now.

[daytona_usa]

I dont have a 4004 *looks sad*

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