This is an age old question. I would break down every machine and look for more than scrap value stuff. With scrap prices going down you need to look what your doing. Take you average pentium 4 or newer machine. They will usualy have resellable ram hard drive or dvdrw drive. Those items alone would you get $6 at the least from me. Now you get lucky and get a nice cpu 2 sticks of ram and a good size hard drive you could $15 or more for those parts. I tore apart a core 2 machine last week that had a bad power supply that I paid $6 for. Sold the cpu for more than $20. No granted it helps I have the setup to test all of this stuff but you can make good money on newer machines as well if you take the time to sell it yourself or send it my way.
Ill go pull a tower out of my garage today or tomorrow and do a breakdown for you.
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