My collection - Page 2

NOBLE... what your take on the value of this load.?

I'm going to say up to about 20 grand.. why.. alot of them processors that only shows the grey side has gold plated on the bottom..

so thats where I'm thinking.

You not think its worth that much.? perhaps I should turn them over ;-)

there are pentium pro's, cyrix, mortola, I960, spartan, pent II, 386, 486, MMX II, and a heck lot more.. blow the pics up... now if I would go flip these over.. except the pentium i you'll find a whole slew of more single sided gold.. there is alot to be seen, hard to say, when you're not looking at it.. properly, and again, I've and as far as pent pro.. there are 19 of them,
I think Five G's is a way bit low. you're only considering one type of processors.

As promised to give a better angle and view of the goodies.

http://s1307.photobucket.com/user/bn...4a6dc.mp4.html<<<<<<<<< Video

I've thought about putting it up on youtube... but.. I figure it would be best to keep em here.. now getting paid may be another story..

tell Me about it.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

This is a collection of my cpu, and other trinkets that I keep in a tidy organize place.

Organized like that, it's a lot easier to guess at what the approximate value might be.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

What I do.. is take some of the higher value stuff and organize based on what they are.

At the rate you are going, it looks like you are going to need to sell off the lesser value items to make more room for the higher value items. You have a lot of material there.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

I really enjoy doing this type of work.

I have a bunch of terrain radar units that came out of F111s, when I want a stress reliever, I sit down and take one apart. Scrapping is a type of meditation, you can let the mind wander free while you take things apart. It's therapy for sure, and it's no wonder there are so many calm people who scrap. All the people I deal with are the nicest, most laid back folk I know.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

been like I said scrapping and always learning and always growing... I've started in My apt den, building computers, and tinkering with this stuff, then moved to a basement in my first home... did More computers repair and more... scrapping, then to a store front. more scrapping and more computer repair, then to a store front of 4000 square feet, upstairs for computer repairs, and downstairs Recycling, and Now I split My business in half.. 2500 square feet for recycling. able to stack and another store for My computer repair service about 1800 square feet... and I'm just loving it.. .

The nice thing is that you seem to be in a position where you are making a good living, and able to accumulate scrap against what the future might hold.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

Hope You learned a bit more about Me and what I do.. and what I enjoy...

Thank you for taking the time to explain what you are doing, and providing pictures, it's very interesting to say the least. And for people just starting scrapping, something maybe to look forward to.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

Thanks for looking and if You've any question please asked and I be happy to reply.

I wanted to respond to a few others, but I am going to go ahead and do so in the same post, so if you read the quotes, you will see who I am responding to:

Originally Posted by DiamondN

Nice collection, but I'm curious about one thing. Why haven't you sold any of these before now, or have you?

If you attempt to buy gold off ebay, and do so from different people, sooner or later you are going to find someone has faked something, and ripped you off. Keeping gold and other precious metals in the form of CPUs, or scrap, cannot be faked. Or I should say it's probably not faked. You could potentially strip the gold off an item and re-paint the gold on, but it's far easier to fake a bar than to attempt to fake a CPU. So keeping precious metals in these forms can actually be better. Not to mention people perceive there to be far more in gold in things like CPUs than there actually is. Not that I am advocating selling gold for more than it's value, but it is a simple truth of things.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

Thanks for the Comedy pix... Got a question.. what do You all think the value of all this goodies on da table.? below.?

Originally Posted by ryanw

My guess is $5,000 scrap value.

There is probably $3000-$5000 just in CPUs, depending on how many lbs are double gold caps, how many are P1s, etc etc etc.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

I'm tring to figure out a quicker way to remove the copper heatsinks from the p4 without loosing the pins.. trin to take a screwdriver and pryin them off a bit of a pain..
but I don't mind if the pins comes off.. so I end up with pinless fiber wonder if its worth just as much..

I did a batch of them P4 on a steel plate on my ole trusty non food grill.. it works great.. them copper slips right off along with the pins..

what do yah all think>/

When I was scrapping fiber CPUs, I would take either a heat gun, or a torch, obviously the torch works faster, with a soldering iron station that had a fume abatement so the fumes were sucked away, because the fumes have all kinds of nasty poisons, heat up the pins while holding the CPU with a part of locking pliers, then knock the pins off, they literally fall right off. Here is a video of what I am talking about.

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

NOBLE... what your take on the value of this load.?

It's hard to say exactly, I would guess just by eyeballing your CPUs, and knowing the weight, you probably have between 3-5k, but unless you break them down by type, and I refer to data I have collected, I just simply cannot be sure.

I do know the numbers on some of your material, and thank you for providing them by the way. For the ceramic CPUs, you are probably looking at an average between 1-2 grams for each lb with 2 grams only being the double gold caps, and even then only if the person refining them knows what they are doing. If we took the rest of the material and figured for .25 grams per lb you would have about 10k - 12k worth of material at today's spot price of $41 per gram. If we figured on the high end, you are looking at around $40k worth of material. The actual probably lies somewhere between 10k-40k.

I know that probably wasn't the answer you were looking for, but it's exceedingly difficult to give an accurate answer, specially not knowing the years the material was produced, the thickness or type of gold plating, what components there are and what they contain, etc etc etc.

I also want to say that I am only figuring gold in this figure, there is almost surely other precious metals involved like Silver and Palladium, possibly platinum but far more unlikely.

As well you probably have Tantalum, Aluminum, for sure Copper, I think you get the idea.

I hope this helps for whatever it's worth.

Scott

Gosh... No comment on the Seller.. Think I'm a Cool Italian ...

It is just another scrapping porn,let's move on ....

What is impressive to me -
Is my collection of scrap wealth, is not attractive and consisted of typical things found in trash to be taken apart
but e scrap after you take the time to collect take apart and organize is very space efficient in comparison to having 4 thousand lbs of vac motors - compressors - batteries ECT.
If the value is upwards to $20,000 I need to re-look at my scrapping of the down and dirty.
last week I spent 4 hrs pulling the center steel wire out of AL insulated wire i ended up with about 95 pounds of AL @ .47 cents a pound . Thats pulling teeth