Originally Posted by
RecyclingSecrets
Great find - thanks! Sure I know amounts can vary, blah, blah, but this is a good starting point to determine the total value of gold in CPUs. Once you know that and if you know the weight of the CPUs, you can get a good estimate of the amount of gold in a pound of given CPUs. Then we are all better prepared when we're offered an amount for our scrap CPUs.
The first time I give you information that is correct. -that these figures are not just varying but downright wrong and I get a "blah blah blah". You speak of the discourtesy you recieve yet when information is given to you that you don't want to recieve you respond like this??
Another prime example of how skewed these figures are is when you compare the weight of an aluminium top amd k62 processor to the very similar weight of a i486 chip. Alledgedly the amd k62 contains 0.11g per chip at a weight of 21.5g each, giving a yield of 5.1g/kg. The i486 at 23.5g containing 0.2g per chip yields 8.5g/kg
According to this, the i486 worth up to $145/lb means that the AMDk62 metalcap is worth 60% the value of an i486 at $87lb. Now which buyers here pay even half that for them??? Are they secretly and knowingly conspiring to pay us less on these chips? I think not.
If this figure is so screwed up how can you possibly believe any of the others are remotely true. This therefore has no other purpose than to give misleading information in peoples expectations of yields, thus has an adverse benefit to being shown.
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