Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
but brass looks like gold and vice versa. To me anyways. The computer cable ends I've seen look the same color as where the memory sticks and cards plug into the motherboards and those are not gold as I've been told by e-waste folks so you can see where the confusion comes from. I just assumed the ends were brass like any other plug end. *shrugs*
rocket science to some maybe but not to others.
Who told you that. I thaught all pci,isa,agp,ram,ide slots on motherboards where gold plated? I could be wrong but that was my understanding. Why bother gold plating the cards that go into that slot and not the slot itself?