I am generally a copper, steel, aluminum, brass and wire scrapper. I don't run across to many computers lap top or otherwise that are intact. The few I did come across I had no clue there was really anything of value in them like gold. I am reading about gold fingers and gold plating on nickel etc on this site. Kind of confusing as to what is really worth messing with. One post broke down a pound of very thin gold plated nickel in to some kind of dollar value. The calculation I read revealed the pound of gold on the nickel was actually worth about 78 cents. Not being an expert on metal composition or an expert in math it's all greek to me but with current scrap prices in the toilet with no relief in sight I have thought about going in to some other area of scrap that might pay a little better. Gold always seems to be up there in value but in regards to these CPU towers is the gold being recovered worth the effort?