Hard drive board - The prices packagers buy it at is usually around $10 / lb, give or take a couple dollars. Does it actually refine out at that in gold, or is it the tantallum and palladium increasing the value? Just thinking about buying a load of hard drives and taking the boards off, it just takes a while and I don't want to waste my time if a lot of the value is in the tantallum caps.
Gold Flash Board - Talking flash only, still populated with IC's, flatpacks, square chips, etc, but no BGA's. The best comparison I can think of is going to be consumer grade wireless routers. Any rough ideas? Can't really photograph it, as it's encapsulated. When you chip away the encapsulation epoxy the components come with it. It may actually be full depth gold plating instead of just a flash, but I'm planning for flash only for now.
I'm not yet set up to be able to ash one or two of them to get an approximate value unfortunately. Hopefully only a couple more weeks, buying the last five sheets of drywall tomorrow and hanging them over the weekend. Then I've just got to poke the hole in the roof. Picked up my hood last week.
Gold Flash Board - Talking flash only, still populated with IC's, flatpacks, square chips, etc, but no BGA's. The best comparison I can think of is going to be consumer grade wireless routers. Any rough ideas? Can't really photograph it, as it's encapsulated. When you chip away the encapsulation epoxy the components come with it. It may actually be full depth gold plating instead of just a flash, but I'm planning for flash only for now.
I'm not yet set up to be able to ash one or two of them to get an approximate value unfortunately. Hopefully only a couple more weeks, buying the last five sheets of drywall tomorrow and hanging them over the weekend. Then I've just got to poke the hole in the roof. Picked up my hood last week.