$$$ Buying Electronic precious metal scrap! $$$

Originally Posted by Phantoms001

If you look at the picture of the processors that were posted there is no speed on the processors. These are test chips, which is why they are marked confidential. You can come across processors by intel marked "ES" (engineering sample) and "confidential" which were not released to the public but still made it into odd machines. They are rare and lots of people in the computer field collect them. They bring a premium.

Intel Xeon E7 8870 30M Cache 2 40 GHz Q5DW ES Confidential Missing Resistor | eBay
New Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 CPU Processor QGPK ES Confidential 2 83GHz 12MB 1333 | eBay

But that really should be a topic for a separate thread, we shouldn't hijack ewasted's thread.

Got it! Sadly, mine are just average chips. Good catch, though. I didn't notice the image was of prototype processors. Mine are the same socket, but they're just worthless 1.5 GHz Pentium 4's.

Back on track: I'm assuming the motherboards are large socket, and the CPUs are Green Fiber with heatsink and pins?



Slightly off track: On these (and the Socket 478 Pentium 4s), would I make more money leaving the heatsinks on or removing them? The price for processors without heatsinks is about $10/pound higher. Is it wiser to leave the heatsinks on, or to pull them and sell them separately (As aluminum???)

Thanks!