Not 1. but 2!! Pentium Pro CPU's

Went to a pickup today. Wasn't really sure what they had. But anyways I get there and they have all kinds of stuff/scrap/junk everywhere. They are also acting a lil funny maybe drugs I dunno. Anyways I left with 2 towers 2 Xbox 360s aswell as an original Xbox and some cable boxes. A real differing load. But small. I was at work and decided to bust open the bigger older looking white tower. And what do you know not 1 but 2!! Pentium pros. I was ecstatic. Made the rest of my work night a lil better needless to say.

So here is a picture. Cuz it did happen! Lol

http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4b254c99.jpg

Flawless victory , some cool guy just posted a Xbox thread breakdown - lucky you !

I forgot to mention I also got a zenith data systems laptop. It has a Intel sx316 which is part of 80386 family. The hard drive in it is a whopping 60 mb harddrive in it. I'll get some more pics tomorrow. I got a really old hard drive and floppy they look like they came out of the same machine. A good day for old stuff and a good way to start the year. I told my self I'm gonna make it happen. This a small but good start.

Keep it up , glad you came out of the gate smoking for 2015 . Nothing better than setting a goal than obtaining one . Might want to send a pic of some of them to some buyers on here , check the buyers thread for vintage item buyers , I believe they pay well above scrap value both parts and whole

Yea the laptop was jacked up already. But I do have everything that the pros came out of. I'm gonna see if I can get it to start up. How bout more pics until then.

http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/...ps12f48109.jpg
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Originally Posted by mudlight2

Went to a pickup today. Wasn't really sure what they had. But anyways I get there and they have all kinds of stuff/scrap/junk everywhere. They are also acting a lil funny maybe drugs I dunno. Anyways I left with 2 towers 2 Xbox 360s aswell as an original Xbox and some cable boxes. A real differing load. But small. I was at work and decided to bust open the bigger older looking white tower. And what do you know not 1 but 2!! Pentium pros. I was ecstatic. Made the rest of my work night a lil better needless to say.

So here is a picture. Cuz it did happen! Lol

http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4b254c99.jpg

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Sent you a pm.

I'm not a big escrap guy. What's special about them? How much do they sell for?

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Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

I'm not a big escrap guy. What's special about them? How much do they sell for?

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The gold alone makes it worth whatever he got for em - can't legally say what they go for as several in the buyer/seller area has em listed as pentium pro cpus.

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I'm not a big escrap guy. What's special about them? How much do they sell for?

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I think theres half of a gram of Gold in each one.
Its one of the highest amounts of Gold in a CPU that you can find.
Theres some other chips that are close, but they are from the same era, like the CPU with the two bolts on its Gold plated cap.
Theres a few 0.4 grams of Gold CPU's, they will have a Gold cap, Gold underside and Gold pins.
Like a K5 chip.

From there the amount of Gold drops off quickly, like 0.3gms with a Gold cap/pins.
Then its mostly 0.2 gms for the larger CPU's

Small CPU are from 0.01 to 0.2, depending on which sort.

But I would like to know how much Gold in a 486 or 386 ceramic plain top CPU.

less then that as most 486s are half the cpu size

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I'm not a big escrap guy. What's special about them? How much do they sell for?

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I can't honestly say that there's more gold in them but a quick check and I see that they are selling for less then the 386 and 486 chips.
I think people like them because you just don't see that many, especially a dual cpu. I'd remove the mother board, put the cpu's back in, clean it up and hang it on my wall.
That's where mine is hanging.

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sweet love the pro finds but ya the old laptops are awesome too with the real sized so to speak processors I get most of my black fiber that way or got to love the old huge portables like the compaqs that look like a suitcase they have the 8088 never have found a good working one though

The pentium pros always sell good on ebay.

Great score & congrats on start to the New Year.

Nice

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I can't honestly say that there's more gold in them but a quick check and I see that they are selling for less then the 386 and 486 chips.
I think people like them because you just don't see that many, especially a dual cpu. I'd remove the mother board, put the cpu's back in, clean it up and hang it on my wall.
That's where mine is hanging.

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There are approximately 5 Pentium Pros in a pound, so as scrap you would be getting about $15 each. Yes, these are worth less per pound than others, but individually they are worth more because they weigh so much. So, finding two of them in a tower is much better than finding two 486s or similar.

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Originally Posted by jimicrk

I can't honestly say that there's more gold in them but a quick check and I see that they are selling for less then the 386 and 486 chips.
I think people like them because you just don't see that many, especially a dual cpu. I'd remove the mother board, put the cpu's back in, clean it up and hang it on my wall.
That's where mine is hanging.

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IIm going to see if I can get it back working. everything is in the tower still. No bent pins on the CPUs. So I need a power cord and an old ps2 mouse and keyboard. And hopefully it'll work. If not yes. I will be displaying them for a bit.

Score!!! 2 birds, one stone

Let us know if you get it to post. It should have some form of windows 95 on it if the hdd works.

Greywolf
I would guess it would have NT or W2K installed because those were the only versions of windows that could see or use dual CPU's at the time.

Will do. It turns out a couple of the pins were slightly bent. But I eased it back in there. Couldn't figure out the fans tho. Didn't have long to mess with it before leaving for work though. I really hope it starts. The case shows sign of rust it was in a carport so not all the way out the weather. I'm going back with my scale . Gonna try and clean this guy out. He's not looking for a lot of money.

Good luck with everything else - you'd be surprised how durable those things are.

I'm still hoping to find one of these......... Iv'e just about hit my 2000th computer mark. And still no P-Pro ;(

I've got a couple, just nothing that big.

I have one. It's not going to be scrapped. It'll likely be worth more in 40 years, plus it's a neat piece.

As for the price, these go for way more than the 386/486 chips. These are very, very heavy CPUs.

You've found the Holy Grail.

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I have one. It's not going to be scrapped. It'll likely be worth more in 40 years, plus it's a neat piece.

As for the price, these go for way more than the 386/486 chips. These are very, very heavy CPUs.

You've found the Holy Grail.

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Yea I was surprised at the size and wieght of them. I will be keeping these for a while. Maybe until I find another. Lol we shall see.

The computer boots right up. Goes to a screen saying insert bootable media into appropriate drive. So should i get NT or 95 or?

Try Windows 2000