Cermamic CPU Questions

First of all, sorry if I posted a dumb question, but looked and could not find the answer. A total Newbie here.

I've been collecting a bunch of ceramic CPU's and have a different types (Pentiums, 486, Cyrix, 386, Sun UltraSpacs)

With ones with the gold tops, can that be added into the AR mix or should they be processed separately?

I believe that the Sun UltraSprac CPU's only have gold on the pins. Is this true. Since they re not soldered, should they just be broken and processed with the other processors?

Thanks in advance

Take a look in the buyer's section. You will surely find your answer there.

Instead of wanting information for the first post an introduction and little bit about yourself would have been more appropriate. Usually people who ask questions on the first post just come in to have their question answered, not to do any contributing.

This sounds like it may be more of a question for the goldrefiningforum

Below is a post from the Admin here at the SMF. I would suggest going back and reading the rules for the forum. That's one reason you couldn't find an answer to your question. We don't talk about refining here.

First and foremost - Refining involves chemicals and processes that can KILL you. Refining is DANGEROUS. That is not to be taken lightly, trying to refine, without knowing what you're doing, can KILL YOU and OTHERS AROUND YOU.

This forum is not the place to become knowledgeable about, or to educate others about the details on how to refine precious metals.

We don't want discussions starting here with detailed posts about how to refine, the mixture of chemicals, how to or not to be safe about it. This is not the place for that type of discussion, refining is an entirely different trade from "Scrapping".

Detailed postings regarding the refining process have always been and will be continue to be removed when they come up. Again this is serious stuff and this forum is not the place to learn or teach these things.

If you want to learn about, or talk about gold refining (or the refining of other precious metals) please visit the Gold Refining Forum 'GRF'.
GOLD REFINING FORUM - GOLD REFINERS HELPING ONE ANOTHER

Thanks!

Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...#ixzz3dpVVXQV6

I mucked around trying to get Gold from different computer parts....

First, to do what you trying you need to know a LOT MORE than you do right now.
I can allready see problems with what you are doing. Lotsa problems... Dangerous problems and money wasting problems.

If you want to get some Gold, go Gold panning etc. Its all fun and even a few minutes after you start you will be doing "The Gold dance".

However, if you try and do what you are doing. You are probably going to lose your sight and get acid burns on you. And destroy whats around you.
You will also never get any Gold.

I have a little science lab knowledge, that did save me ftom getting badly burnt.
But it didn't stop me from covering the ceiling with a mixture of boiling Hydrcchloric acid/dissolved Copper and fine Gold....


A 'first timer' the best first timer, is lucky to get a 50% return and thats someonewho knows what to do. Studied, got taught etc etc =50%
The best home refiner will get about 90% if they are lucky and 'all the stars line up'. And they know exactly what they are processing.

All CPU are different, you cannot just use 'the ceramic cpu' and get a result.
Try and imagin that you are not getting Gold from the cpu, but you are getting the cpu away from the Gold.

Now, that 90% return if you know what you are doing.... Well that costs money, lots of money.
But, you can scrap down your computer stuff properly, send it to a 'toll refiner' or sell it to a escrap buyer and get about 90% of the value of the Gold back.

These refiners process huge amounts of escrap. And properly, employing people who make a wage and who know what they are doing. They do it every day.
These refiners also get the other metals out, Silver, Bismuth, Tin, Copper, platinum. Now thats where they make their money. They are so efficent that its actually the other metals they recover that pay their botton line. Not the Gold.


So, do escrap, save it up, process it properly, send it off, get money, walk down the road and buy some tradeable Gold coins that you and everyone else knows is 24k Gold.