***EDIT: THIS POST NOW SEEMS REALLY REDUNDANT SEEING AS COMPUTER SCRAPPER BEAT ME TO THE PUNCH***
A good way to start is to remove every screw you can find and make piles of "like" components.
1 pile of powersupplies (can then be broken down futher)
1 pile of cd-rom drives (can then be broken down further)
1 pile of empty steel cases
1 pile of the rectangular chips that you can unclip from the main system board(these are your RAM or memory)
1 pile of motherboards (main system board)
1 pile of the boards that mount perpendicular to the motherboard and screw to the back of the case (pci cards)
1 pile of fans
1 pile of heatsinks
1 pile of the square chip under the heatsink on the motherboard (this is the CPU chip itself)
1 pile of wires
1 pile of harddrives
Once you have broken down to the individual components, go back to your guy and ask him about how to separate the CPU chips to different grades. Some CPU chips are worth 20+ dollars each for scrap, some are worth 20 cents.
Some of the piles above can be broken down further to maximaize value. Gold fingers can be trimmed and sold separately from Ram and PCI cards, hard drive and cd-rom boards can be stripped to component level, end connectors can be snipped from wires to make another pile, power supplies can be stripped to component level...you will need to decide where you will stop.
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