Your Dell PC towers most likely have in them:
CPU - the most valuable part for gold recovery/collectors market;
Matherboard - where all electronic components are connected together. The option is to sell it on the aftermarket or for PM/gold recovery. If latter you can choose to depopulate the valuable things off it for your own gold recovery or sell it fully for a higher price to somebody else;
Hard Drive - aftermarket or for scrap (high grade aluminum case + control board for PM/gold recovery);
RAM sticks - most likely for gold recovery only as the technology for them develops so fast the size of the memory on them doubles almost every year;
Expansion cards (Audio card, Video card, Network card etc.) - unless somebody upgraded them recently before they sold you the PCs, they are only good for PM/gold recovery but it never hurts to check the Ebay prices before you decide to scrap them as the amount of PM/gold on them is far less in comparison to the money you can sell them for even at 25% of the price of the new ones;
CD/Floppy drives - not worth much as scrap for PM/gold recovery but may have some value on the aftermarket;
Electric wires - have copper value and gold/silver plated connectors.
Power supply unit - take them apart for copper.
Your scrapyard will pay for the whole towers more than for steel but less if you would take them apart and sell the components from them separately.
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