There's definitely no gold rush in 1 computer, 1 cel phone, and 1 microwave... but it's all gotta start from somewhere. There is no miracle place to get "decent gold". It's in a lot of scrap - how much and how hard it is to get to it all depends on the scrap. You could have 10 pentium 4 computers sitting in front of you and not get the gold yield as you would from 1 dual cap pentium processor. And it's a whole other story on processing that gold once you get enough scrap.
I've stripped about 500 computers in the last 4 months and even then it's not worth my time and effort to collect the gold and try to process it myself. Out of all that I have stripped, I would have probably dropped between 1-2 ounces of gold from all the processors, pins, flatpacks, connectors, and finger boards. That would be all great, however to get that gold I would have to handle hazardous materials, deal with deadly gas fumes, and wonder where and how I'm going to dispose of the environmental sludge waste. There is a whole other forum dedicated to doing this type of refining and it's not for everyone. I looked, lurked, read books, and watched videos for 8 months. I finally decided to leave the refining to those that have the ability to do so, and just sell escrap at about 60% of what i would have made refining the gold and other precious metals.
Good luck to you if you decide to refine the scrap on your own (and I'm being serious, not sarcastic).
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