Question from newbie

[jabbadabbado]

Hi all!

I´m new to all of this but i must im very grateful for this site.
Yesterday a friend of mine gave me 10 servers as he knew i was gonna try to recover gold.
He can can supply me with loads of stuff from his workpace. Anyways..

Im not really shure where the gold is hiding, exept in the obvious places.
There doesnt seem to be any "regular" cpu´s so im posting some pics of the different parts hoping you could guide me.

 

[Geo]

very nice material, it should produce good gold along with other PM's so dont just collect the gold and toss the rest. picture 007 is a cpu. the board in picture 003 looks like the entire trace is gold plated, try removing some of the green solder mask gently and see if the first thing you see is more gold or dull brown. all of the square IC packages contain a microchip and solid gold wires, microchip=micro wires but it is good gold. of coarse fingers and finger slots, connector pins and memory card slots and any other pci card slots.

 

[glorycloud]

Seems like I have used pliers to pull those gold tabs out of the
power supplies in picture 1. 8)

 

[MMFJ]

Hi all!

I´m new to all of this but i must im very grateful for this site.
Yesterday a friend of mine gave me 10 servers as he knew i was gonna try to recover gold.
He can can supply me with loads of stuff from his workpace. Anyways..

Im not really shure where the gold is hiding, exept in the obvious places.
There doesnt seem to be any "regular" cpu´s so im posting some pics of the different parts hoping you could guide me.

As well as the help you've been given, there's "GOLD" in the rest of the material as well - just 'easy' stuff I see in your pictures is some aluminum and stainless steel heat sinks (picture 5 - the top one is typically aluminum wrapped over stainless, but often welded on, so put it all in your stainless bucket - the bottom one is aluminum) as well as many boards that are typically simpler to sell off to a buyer (many on this forum use boardsort.com - great folks, IMHO) - your pic 3 of the motherboard, just pop off those aluminum heat sinks (the black square things) with a screwdriver and remove the battery and they will pay you around $4 a pound (see their site for latest pricing).

The aluminum, stainless and other things you sort out (like wires of all sorts) - put them all in one bucket and ask at the scrap yard how to best separate the next load. I've found the guys there are always willing to teach you how to make more money!

Note that even the screws you take out of the computers have 'value' as scrap, so don't throw them away! An easy way to sort them is to take a strong magnet over the pile - the iron ones will come along for the ride, the rest are either stainless or aluminum and can be sorted, or just put into your stainless bucket (stainless is less valuable than aluminum and the minor extra weight of aluminum isn't an issue at any scrapper I've been to - they are happy to pay you less than it is worth if you don't sort it, but don't do it the other way around!)

Keep on taking those computers and get yourself a pile of 'like' stuff going - then cash it all in - great stuff!

 

[philddreamer]

I see monolithic capacitors starting with pic #2 (Gold 003) the "AMP" card; all the light brown ones, those contain palladium. Also I see tantalum capacitors, (one on each end on the same card; C70, C71).
Do a search for more detailed information.
Look for them on the rest of the boards.

Phil