Before I dismantle my CPU Processors.................

[Eric]

I need to know if there is any gold inside the fibre or if it only on the pins.

Also, what are these yellow circles and dashes on the fibre--is that gold?

Are there any other possible precious metals to look out for?

and one final question before I go to bed, (sorry)

Approximately how many processors would I need to equal one ounce? Most of the processors I have are Intel Pentium 3 Celerons, which means no fat metal disk in the middle, just the standard 242 pins that are 3.5mm long.

http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=0&l0=co&l1=Intel&l2=P+III+Celeron

 

[Anonymous]

Not a lot of gold in the pentium 3. It's a flip chip, so called because the die is inverted during the manufacturing process. As far as I know, all flip chips, including the later intels and AMD K6 and later, did away with the internal gold wire bonding. Google AMD material declaration data sheet. One of the three or four has amounts of gold in athlons, etc. The P3s should be about the same. If I remember correctly, The AMD athlons, etc varied between 1 and 6 milligrams of gold per chip. Haven't been able to find this info for Intel. Everything I've seen from Intel lists toxic materials such as lead, but not materials of interest as AMD has done.

What you are looking for are the older processors, ceramic pentiums, 486, 386, Cyrix, and AMD prior to the K6.

Do a search on this site for pentium pro. One of the members, maybe Catfish posted results. Regular pentiums should have about the same yield per pound, perhaps a bit more. There's quite a bit of info on this site, you just have to dig for it.

Also, check out Lasersteve's posts. He's posted a ton of info.