Gold CPU Recycling Yields And Values
Did you know that there is gold in many old CPUs (central processing units or chips) of old crappy computers? Did you also know that many people don''t know about this or even care? This opens a big opportunity for canny gold investors to acquire a raw source of industrial gold at a fraction of the value of the gold contained in these CPUs. These CPUs can be found in dumped computers on the side of the road, at the local tip and are often given away for free at garage sales. They can be divided into three classes:
VERY HIGH YEILD CPUS - Have quarter of a gram or more per piece.
HIGH YEILD CPUS - Have from 1/20th of a gram up to quarter of a gram
LOW YEILD CPUS - Have under 1/20th of a gram
Below I will give you a list of some of the CPU types and yields that are available, and put an approximate value on them using today''s Australian dollar gold spot price: ($1440 per ounce - $46.30 per Gram)
VERY HIGH YEILD CPUs:
NEC (server chip) - 0.27g - $12.50 per CPU
Toshiba (server chip) - 0.27g - $12.50 per CPU
AMD K5 - 0.50g - $23.15 per CPU
Pentium Pro (the holy grail of yields) 1.0g - $46.30 per CPU ($56.50 at $1760 per ounce)
Cyrix 586 - 0.25g - $11.58 per CPU
IBM 686 PR200 - 0.25g - $11.58 per CPU
Original Intel Pentium 60Mhz - 90Mhz 0.48g - $22.22 per CPU
HIGH YEILD CPUs
Cyrix 486 - 0.11g - $5.09 per CPU
IBM 586 - 0.1g - $4.63 per CPU
Texas Instruments 486 - 0.1g - $4.63 per CPU
Intel 486SX - 0.1g - $4.63 per CPU
i486 TX 486DLC - 0.12g - $5.55 per CPU
AMD (early green) - 0.11g - $5.09 per CPU
Cyrix 686 - 0.21g - $9.72 per CPU
Cyrix MII - 0.18g - $8.33 per CPU
Winchip - 0.17g - $7.87 per CPU
Intel 486 DX4 - 0.19g - $8.80 per CPU
Intel 486 + DX2 - 0.20g - $9.26 per CPU
Intel I960 - 0.16g - $7.40 per CPU
AMD 486 - 0.12g - $5.55 per CPU
AMD (brown) - 0.08g $3.70 per CPU
AMD K6 - 0.11g - $5.09 per CPU
Intel Pentium MMX (ceramic) 0.12g - $5.55 per CPU
Intel Pentium (ceramic) 0.12g - $5.55 per CPU
LOW YEILD CPUs
Intel Pentium 1 MMX black fibre
Celeron - black fibre
Celeron - green fibre
Celeron - slot one
Pentium 2 - slot one
Pentium 3 - slot one
Pentium 3 - all types
Pentium 4 - all types
Intel Core - all types
Intel Core 2 Duo - all types
Intel i3, i5, i7 - all types
WARNING: Recycling can be very dangerous if you are not experienced. The chemicals used to extract the gold can be fatal if misused or inhaled.