great day escrapping found my first pentium pro

Bought 2 lots today from local sellers



results of first lot, 10 computers and 2 motherboards paid $55 for:
1 pentium pro ceramic
1 double sided gold pentium cap and base ceramic
1 gold top ceramic
2 gold base ceramic
5 plain pentium ceramic
2 mmx black fiber

looks to be $60+ on the cpus alone

results of 2nd lot paid $50 for:
30 pounds of industrial green boards, midgrade/high grade $80
2 intel atom 1.6ghz boards from pitney bowes equipment tested and working with 1gb ram on each board $70 each Advantech Aimb 210 Motherboard 1 6GHz Intel Atom CPU Mini ITX 1GB RAM N270 | eBay

Good way to end the week or Start the week depending on how you look at it

i also found a really old motherboard with no cpu on it, it looks like all it is ic chips, any idea what its worth?

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

I have a 'Multitech' thats like that, but one of the normal looking chips has 'cpu' inked on it.

yep thats possible, haven't pulled it or really looked into it yet, it has several pounds of ceramic ics on it so im guessing the scrap value of the board to be around $20, might be worth more tested and working

I also found 2 pentium 4 651's, i didnt think they were worth anything but i looked them up and theyre going for $9 each, which is more than what pentium d dual core 820's are going for.

I have yet to find my first Pentium pro. Im jelous.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I have yet to find my first Pentium pro. Im jelous.

You will get one just be patient.

They are like a beautiful woman, hard to find, hard to hold onto and after you have had a few you will wonder what all the fuss was over.

Originally Posted by BarrenRealms007

You will get one just be patient.

They are like a beautiful woman, hard to find, hard to hold onto and after you have had a few you will wonder what all the fuss was over.

LOL i probable have one out in the garage. Ive been so busy with all this hard drive and ram business havnt had time to break anything down. Good problem to have I guess.

I was spoiled..... my first ever curb-found tower was a 486.

I thought they ALL were gonna be like that.

Nice haul. I have broken down probably over 1,000 PCs now and have yet to get one (pentium pro). I have a small hand full of 386 and 486 though.

yea usually the pcs i scrap are fiber cpus. The lot i bought turned out be be 100% ceramic/black fiber which is very rare.

I've brought in a dual pentium pro motherboard systems, got the works for 6.50 bucks.. made a premium on it,

so Me buying scrap at 30 per pounds pays off.. one way or another.

Congrats to your first pent pro.

I'm up to 18 pent pro processors now. in my collection.