As a CPU collector, seeing those piles of CPUs makes me weep at the prices I pay and how harder it is to hunt down various models (and I don't even care about bent pins, I just want the CPU!) But it is a very niche hobby, and if the collector only wants pristine CPUs, I get it, maybe it's better to reclaim the gold. It still breaks my heart though.
As for your question. Like you, I'm torn on what to do with my CPU's. I have a personal collection. I guess my kids will sell that off when I'm gone. Then I have the stack - somewhat smaller than yours - that I'm either going to use for my own gold refining or sell off. Lastly, I have the stack that I sell on a regular basis to folks like Boardsort (in the US).
LMAO at the beginning. I see the mistake I've been making - no VEGEMITE. 🤣 That is a serious stack of CPU's - very impressive. I appreciate you taking the time to lay all those out for us, especially given how busy you are on a regular basis.
I was thinking, man, no sardines? Hey, just a minute dude. You know sardines can/will definitely split an atom. LOL, but that chocolate mix or whatever they call it was a real kicker!🤓🤣
bipolar snaparazzi not that I have ever seen...after googling it...looks a lot like American tomato ketchup with more vinegar and a heavier hand on the spices.
Ben, I've been watching you for a good long while. Something you said a long time ago still rings in my mind. "Scrap tin shred and non ferrous for today money, scrap precious metals for tomorrow money" no other channel has made the impression on me as you and your knowledge. Thanks mate and be safe and well
donnie brown streetips does have it down and he is very knowledgeable.. but Ben , Shark and moose all day there not pros at it .. I love those guys because of there knowledge and how to get it them boys know there stuff
@@donniebrown2896 he's a refiner period, Ben does absolutely nothing but scrap and buy stuff from people. He's never refined anything but says he can or thinks he can. Honestly never listen to Ben if iT doesn't have to scrapping. He's a great scrapper but Honestly that's it but even than people lose money because of Ben at times
@@streetcopper1151 knowing what might hurt you or end your life is pretty important in this business. It's just simple scrapping, it's not much to be knowledgeable about because you can see what's important and should at least know what may be important or to go after. Everyone would be much better in this line of work if guy actually knew hardware and studied computers, servers and what's actually worth real money beyond precious metals. Some cpus are worth far more than you can ever imagine. Grey trace 4004 $2,000, if it's engineering sample $10,000, a good majority of sample cpus can go for $25 to $500 a lot of intel chips are worth hundreds. These guys are just scrappers and nothing more especially ben, he knows nothing else outside of scrapping. I've been doing this a long time and you need to know all 4 sides of the business. Scrapping which is easy anyone can do it, recovering and refining, computer hardware and networking contacts
Retirement fund . Impressive amount of processors and slot cards. I couldn’t resist when gold hit $1,750 once loaded up the car with half my Hoard made the 6 hour drive $$$$. Ben I have 3 of white porcelain double processors they come out of old tape drive ibm.
The amount is absolutely incredible fantastic to see it. Thank you for sharing your treasure. I’m saving mine for the time and doing my best at finger foil gold recovery. That visual made my day. Thanks again.
You need to get your self a nice ball mill, and a shaker table. Crush them all to dust and use the shaker table to separate the materiel, I have seen some people do that. Real heavy metals go out at the bottom. them lighter materials further up the table. and really light stuff goes to the top. pretty good to get as much clean gold as possible and them process.
I would keep them all as a collectible, maybe except the ones with heavily bent pins and even worse damage. There is so little gold in there that it will never compensate the market value of the CPUs once they reach a critical age and/or availability. Maybe a standard Pentium 1 or 486 is worth less now than gold value but wait a few years and that will change. I am a collector of old hard disks myself and while most of them were aquired for way less than 10 bucks (incl. shipping) it gets more and more difficult to find one for this price range. Some models are worth tens of bucks (Euros in my case) now and were dirt cheap a few years ago when I got them. Same will be for CPUs, I'm quite sure ... Don't just aim for the hardcore collectors that are willing to spent top dollar. A 486 for 10 bucks sold yields you way more money than the gold in it and it is always better to preserve than to destroy. Recycling should always be the last option.
I'd hang on to them Ben, unless you need the money. Gold is gold, and it really doesn't matter what form it's in. I know they are not extremely rare, but they are super hard to find scrapping out computers these days. I think most scrappers like them, I know I do. You pretty much have to buy them now days if you want them. You have a great collection there. I seriously would like to buy some of them from you.
When will you be refining all those CPU's ?? I thought I was a baller with my 15 gold ceramic cpu's but you my friend are King Status. I'm Going to process some boards and fingers I got from a vintage lot of old Gateway PC's and old IBM's a lot of gold parts and chips so I hope to get a decent yield it was 40-50 PC's from the 80's so I hope the gold is good.
You should consider the RETRO group of people who are looking for those older style boards and CPU's, yes you can get a lot of scrap, but only if the board is utterly dead. Retro gaming is coming in force and should be a good thing for you people who have older stock of boards / cpu's and so forth :P
@@865tanman scraping it with a hard metal object, with recovery of gold and destroying the board completely i do not know of any other way of recovery of gold alone without chemicals, Chips can be removed before destruction though. But knowing what chips are more in need right now would benefit you as well.
We dont have that in the U. S. Only milo is in 60 lb bags for animal feed. That is why I asked to get a real answer not “same as everywhere”. Apparently not the same. In Australia it looks like chocolate flavor in a jar. But only down under
Those black Intel Pentium Pro are worth a fortune to collectors.. not to mention all those beautiful ones right next to them...arrrg, would give my left legs for that collection!
When it comes to determining if something should be viewed as collectible, the key is to imagine oneself asking that question ten or twenty years from now. I personally believe that as more people in places such as India become capable of acquiring collectibles and using social media to share their hobby, items of all sorts will become more valuable, especially small items that can be mailed with relatively low cost.
I gather you are trialing a cheap organic acidic mix for gold recovery? I figured it may be the case partially due to the fact that i have used vinegar baths for cleaning rusty items up. Not sure i understand why you would use the milo, the vegemite and maybe the salt in the mix. The sauces obviously have some acidic content to it.
Everything is collectible it’s just saving everything and taking your time and have some room in your home store everything for the meanwhile keep collecting . really build up a lot of precious metals and it’s gonna be a lot and worth . For u or for your children or grandchildren or your children’s children’s children’s children. For us or for future purpose’s
I'd love to get a Socket 4 Pentium 66. Doesn't matter if the pins are bent as long as they're all here, I can fix that.And a Socket 3 Cyrix 5x86 as well
I've noticed some kids want old cpu's to string them together & build computers for private networks, so maybe there's some value there for usable instead of collectible.
If I got to this level I would feel like I’ve made it in life , I love scrap and gold&silver , your worth well over 100k I bet , that tables probably holds 30k alone
"Alright, alright, alright" This is what a balanced and healthy breakfast looks like in Australia ya. 😂😂😂 Ben one never stops learning with you and thank you very much. 👍 Greets from Bearlin and continue to stay healthy !! 😉
I think someone needs to get back to Street Scrapping!😜 I was thinking, man, Ben's done gone off the deep end!?!? But then I got hungry really fast. Yummy, thanks Ben very educational and entertaining too!👍👍👍👍
Google, several CPUs are still sought after for use. Motorola 68060 and such. Also the high end (latest and greatest of the 486, Pentium) for their retro builds.
In 20 or 30 years people like Ben and myself may not even be alive to enjoy spending the money! Hope we are, but we're not spring chickens! We're getting up there! Sorry Ben, didn't mean any offence if you read this! 😞 I agree with what you're saying though!! Have a GREAT Day!!!
Just started scraping electronic. How much on average ,gold do you get from one CPU? I homeless and trying to make a few bucks. Got a little collection happening. Nothing like the amount you have. Yet!
Ill have to go through mine I only have like 14 or 15 of them and like 20 different ram sticks I have a few vids on my channel to show what I have in my stash that's still growing every day wish I could sell them but there's no one near me so ill just collect till someone wants it all or parts out of it
I did quite a bit of checking on recovering calls from CPUs and I think you’re better off just hanging onto them and selling them looking at them but as far as extracting gold I don’t think it’s worth it You only get like 1/ 10th of a gram per CPU if that
I have maybe a hand full of the old ceramic chips. Even have a couple with the bolts on them. IDK maybe i will put em up for sale. So how much gold you think you have there Ben?
Hi Ben, do you think there is a problem to hold ceramic cpu in my living room.Is there possibility for some toxic materials to be released slowly in my room
GO FOR THE GOLD RECOVERY AND PUT IT UP IN A LITTLE JAR UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO REFINE!! Salt and Vinegar is a safe and simple way to remove the gold from many gold bearing items!!
He might have a couple of ounces in just the Pentium Pros!! If he processed all of it, he might be looking at a half kilo or more!! Have a GREAT Day!!!
Every time i go to the scrap yard, i go up to the booth with the scale master and down on the floor behind him is a brown paper bag full of those yummy old ceramic CPUs just spilling out. It's been just kicked around on the floor FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS, WTF?
As a CPU collector, seeing those piles of CPUs makes me weep at the prices I pay and how harder it is to hunt down various models (and I don't even care about bent pins, I just want the CPU!) But it is a very niche hobby, and if the collector only wants pristine CPUs, I get it, maybe it's better to reclaim the gold. It still breaks my heart though.
Agreed!
I'll sell you what I come across and currently have if you'd like. I'd ship, located in south jersey
As for your question. Like you, I'm torn on what to do with my CPU's. I have a personal collection. I guess my kids will sell that off when I'm gone. Then I have the stack - somewhat smaller than yours - that I'm either going to use for my own gold refining or sell off. Lastly, I have the stack that I sell on a regular basis to folks like Boardsort (in the US).
I take donations. Lol no international mail.😜😜😀
Impressive pile, looks like you just got inside the Aladdin's cave of scrap !
NASA still uses 486. Hubble telescope runs on a 486 - low power usage and stronger protection against radiation.
Also a bit of a hassle to upgrade .
LMAO at the beginning. I see the mistake I've been making - no VEGEMITE. 🤣 That is a serious stack of CPU's - very impressive. I appreciate you taking the time to lay all those out for us, especially given how busy you are on a regular basis.
I was thinking, man, no sardines? Hey, just a minute dude. You know sardines can/will definitely split an atom. LOL, but that chocolate mix or whatever they call it was a real kicker!🤓🤣
I have not laughed this hard in a while, good GOING
I don’t know what I loved better: you laughing at your own shenanigan or the fact that they have “American mustard”
“Mild” American mustard!!! As if it wasn’t a bland condiment to start!?!
Peter G. Any mustard is better no mustard...but yeah that was funny.
And hp sauce its from the uk bet americans dont have that
bipolar snaparazzi not that I have ever seen...after googling it...looks a lot like American tomato ketchup with more vinegar and a heavier hand on the spices.
@@ursamines7643 it goes really well with a bacon sandwich 😍
Ben, I've been watching you for a good long while. Something you said a long time ago still rings in my mind. "Scrap tin shred and non ferrous for today money, scrap precious metals for tomorrow money" no other channel has made the impression on me as you and your knowledge.
Thanks mate and be safe and well
I can only agree
These are 100% Collectibles. With me in Germany, there cost a Intel Pentium Pro around 50 to 100€. They are much too good to recycle.
Lukas 2143 yes. Also the Amiga and Commodore market went up on Ebay.de, also the Kleinanzeigen the prices are up for a good unit.
1000%% i prefer to keep and re-dress pins of pentium and if they work or not i keep it
this is heartbreaking, seeing that pile of rare CPUS I've searched so hard for just being destroyed. A shame people see these as nothing but scrap!
Thanks Ben for all you teach us .. between you shark and moose a guy can learn a ton
The three were my favorites, but then I started watching sreetips. He is a serious "refiner"
.9999 silver? He does it
donnie brown streetips does have it down and he is very knowledgeable.. but Ben , Shark and moose all day there not pros at it .. I love those guys because of there knowledge and how to get it them boys know there stuff
@@donniebrown2896 he's a refiner period, Ben does absolutely nothing but scrap and buy stuff from people. He's never refined anything but says he can or thinks he can. Honestly never listen to Ben if iT doesn't have to scrapping. He's a great scrapper but Honestly that's it but even than people lose money because of Ben at times
@@streetcopper1151 knowing what might hurt you or end your life is pretty important in this business. It's just simple scrapping, it's not much to be knowledgeable about because you can see what's important and should at least know what may be important or to go after. Everyone would be much better in this line of work if guy actually knew hardware and studied computers, servers and what's actually worth real money beyond precious metals. Some cpus are worth far more than you can ever imagine. Grey trace 4004 $2,000, if it's engineering sample $10,000, a good majority of sample cpus can go for $25 to $500 a lot of intel chips are worth hundreds. These guys are just scrappers and nothing more especially ben, he knows nothing else outside of scrapping. I've been doing this a long time and you need to know all 4 sides of the business. Scrapping which is easy anyone can do it, recovering and refining, computer hardware and networking contacts
I actually belly laughed when I heard you snicker. Good on you. Awesome channel and thanks for that.
wow love your refining method haha great job
Dig A Hole In The Garden And Bury Em Ben , Blessings From Birmingham England UK
joohop yay! great one! (jeezz i miss brum ☹️ especially digging up those processors! 😂😂😂)
@@geoffupton Ya Flamin Bogan How Do You Know Brum ?
joohop born and grew up there til i was 34, folks still live there 😊
@@geoffupton Blimey That's Bonzer Onya Fella
Same here, blessings from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Retirement fund . Impressive amount of processors and slot cards. I couldn’t resist when gold hit $1,750 once loaded up the car with half my Hoard made the 6 hour drive $$$$. Ben I have 3 of white porcelain double processors they come out of old tape drive ibm.
Hahahaha you're Mutley laugh in the Delia Gold Soup made me laugh so much. Well made Ben!!!
The amount is absolutely incredible fantastic to see it. Thank you for sharing your treasure. I’m saving mine for the time and doing my best at finger foil gold recovery. That visual made my day. Thanks again.
The beginning of this video gave me how to basic flashbacks
Four minutes in and got everything I needed to get my nice Perth bar, thanks!
New sub. This made me choke and spit my coffee on my self. Gold
You need to get your self a nice ball mill, and a shaker table. Crush them all to dust and use the shaker table to separate the materiel, I have seen some people do that. Real heavy metals go out at the bottom. them lighter materials further up the table. and really light stuff goes to the top. pretty good to get as much clean gold as possible and them process.
I would keep them all as a collectible, maybe except the ones with heavily bent pins and even worse damage. There is so little gold in there that it will never compensate the market value of the CPUs once they reach a critical age and/or availability. Maybe a standard Pentium 1 or 486 is worth less now than gold value but wait a few years and that will change. I am a collector of old hard disks myself and while most of them were aquired for way less than 10 bucks (incl. shipping) it gets more and more difficult to find one for this price range. Some models are worth tens of bucks (Euros in my case) now and were dirt cheap a few years ago when I got them. Same will be for CPUs, I'm quite sure ... Don't just aim for the hardcore collectors that are willing to spent top dollar. A 486 for 10 bucks sold yields you way more money than the gold in it and it is always better to preserve than to destroy. Recycling should always be the last option.
Love your videos. Was looking forward to one like this. And you made me laugh😂
I'd hang on to them Ben, unless you need the money. Gold is gold, and it really doesn't matter what form it's in. I know they are not extremely rare, but they are super hard to find scrapping out computers these days. I think most scrappers like them, I know I do. You pretty much have to buy them now days if you want them. You have a great collection there. I seriously would like to buy some of them from you.
Dude! 30 seconds in and I was rolling on the floor! Good stuff man!
Damn bro you got a huge collection I only have like 60 Pentiums
When will you be refining all those CPU's ?? I thought I was a baller with my 15 gold ceramic cpu's but you my friend are King Status. I'm Going to process some boards and fingers I got from a vintage lot of old Gateway PC's and old IBM's a lot of gold parts and chips so I hope to get a decent yield it was 40-50 PC's from the 80's so I hope the gold is good.
You should consider the RETRO group of people who are looking for those older style boards and CPU's, yes you can get a lot of scrap, but only if the board is utterly dead. Retro gaming is coming in force and should be a good thing for you people who have older stock of boards / cpu's and so forth :P
@@lemonrev you know of any way without chemicals to remove all metals from board?(except chips)
@@865tanman scraping it with a hard metal object, with recovery of gold and destroying the board completely i do not know of any other way of recovery of gold alone without chemicals, Chips can be removed before destruction though.
But knowing what chips are more in need right now would benefit you as well.
We dont have that in the U. S. Only milo is in 60 lb bags for animal feed. That is why I asked to get a real answer not “same as everywhere”. Apparently not the same. In Australia it looks like chocolate flavor in a jar. But only down under
www.walmart.com/ip/NESTLE-MILO-Chocolate-Flavored-Nutritional-Drink-Mix-14-1-oz-Canister/10804319
greatest intro to a video EVER on youtube
Those black Intel Pentium Pro are worth a fortune to collectors.. not to mention all those beautiful ones right next to them...arrrg, would give my left legs for that collection!
WOW AND WOW AGAIN - VINEGAR AND TOMATO KETCHUP - WOW !!!! ANOTHER VERY GOOD VIDEO - WE LOVE IT HERE - THANKS !!!!
Now you are just making us hungry :)
I can watch it again..and again... 1000 times
Hi Ben. Good videos! I enjoyed a lot
Nice big collection CPUs
When it comes to determining if something should be viewed as collectible, the key is to imagine oneself asking that question ten or twenty years from now. I personally believe that as more people in places such as India become capable of acquiring collectibles and using social media to share their hobby, items of all sorts will become more valuable, especially small items that can be mailed with relatively low cost.
Oh yeah,, this must be the new show Cooking with Ben
I gather you are trialing a cheap organic acidic mix for gold recovery? I figured it may be the case partially due to the fact that i have used vinegar baths for cleaning rusty items up. Not sure i understand why you would use the milo, the vegemite and maybe the salt in the mix. The sauces obviously have some acidic content to it.
Everything is collectible it’s just saving everything and taking your time and have some room in your home store everything for the meanwhile keep collecting . really build up a lot of precious metals and it’s gonna be a lot and worth . For u or for your children or grandchildren or your children’s children’s children’s children. For us or for future purpose’s
That intro made me laugh! Great video ben :)
I'd love to get a Socket 4 Pentium 66. Doesn't matter if the pins are bent as long as they're all here, I can fix that.And a Socket 3 Cyrix 5x86 as well
I'm mind blown about the size of that cpu lot.. and when you said 70% of your collection is not even there..
Love it!
I've noticed some kids want old cpu's to string them together & build computers for private networks, so maybe there's some value there for usable instead of collectible.
Very interesting Ben, never thought about all the CPU variations !
i wish i had that many cpu's :( thats so much
thats treasure right there tho =(
How do you get your computers? How do you get contracts and computers given to you?
advertising, flyers and 6 years of pushing for work
That's it. With those refining techniques iv decided to send you my collection to do. Only one thing, can you use bullseye 🎯 rather then hp sauce. 😀
Awsome video
If I got to this level I would feel like I’ve made it in life , I love scrap and gold&silver , your worth well over 100k I bet , that tables probably holds 30k alone
"Alright, alright, alright" This is what a balanced and healthy breakfast looks like in Australia ya. 😂😂😂 Ben one never stops learning with you and thank you very much. 👍 Greets from Bearlin and continue to stay healthy !! 😉
I think someone needs to get back to Street Scrapping!😜 I was thinking, man, Ben's done gone off the deep end!?!? But then I got hungry really fast. Yummy, thanks Ben very educational and entertaining too!👍👍👍👍
Ben, thanks for the informative info 👍 you're a pro! I would keep the good ones like you said and recover the rest.
when you panned onto the table with all the ceramics..... I think I peed a little.....
Google, several CPUs are still sought after for use. Motorola 68060 and such. Also the high end (latest and greatest of the 486, Pentium) for their retro builds.
Great video just started watching 👍
I'm sorry to say but I disagree there's no way with that mixture you're going to get gold recovery. Everyone knows you have to have black Peppa 😁👍
I think you must keep the good condition specimens.Imagine how much will cost after 20 or 30 years when even the sandart DX2 486 will cost a lot
In 20 or 30 years people like Ben and myself may not even be alive to enjoy spending the money! Hope we are, but we're not spring chickens! We're getting up there! Sorry Ben, didn't mean any offence if you read this! 😞
I agree with what you're saying though!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
Nice collection!
Just started scraping electronic. How much on average ,gold do you get from one CPU?
I homeless and trying to make a few bucks. Got a little collection happening. Nothing like the amount you have. Yet!
Ill have to go through mine I only have like 14 or 15 of them and like 20 different ram sticks I have a few vids on my channel to show what I have in my stash that's still growing every day wish I could sell them but there's no one near me so ill just collect till someone wants it all or parts out of it
I did quite a bit of checking on recovering calls from CPUs and I think you’re better off just hanging onto them and selling them looking at them but as far as extracting gold I don’t think it’s worth it You only get like 1/ 10th of a gram per CPU if that
I have maybe a hand full of the old ceramic chips. Even have a couple with the bolts on them. IDK maybe i will put em up for sale. So how much gold you think you have there Ben?
THIS IS PARADISE OF CPU GOLD
I am an electronic engineer and find what you do fascinating. Do you ever work with the chemicals and acids to extract precious metals? Take Care-
Wow . Ive been collecting mother boards and othe board , video , sound cards can we do that to boards it self
Hilarious!! Love the videos!
Its Howtobasic !
it's got for a fortune on the table, crazy !
love it
You should do a scrap festival id totally come 🇬🇧🇬🇧
How many did you take to India? Did you process any then?
Nice collection of square “gold coins”
It would be awesome to refine all that into bullion.
That's a lot of CPU's, i only have nine. I don't find many computer towers in my area. Thank s for the video Ben !
its crazy how much he have in cpu :p i love it
Noo way.. you kidding me...😁😁😁😁
Hi Ben, do you think there is a problem to hold ceramic cpu in my living room.Is there possibility for some toxic materials to be released slowly in my room
GO FOR THE GOLD RECOVERY AND PUT IT UP IN A LITTLE JAR UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO REFINE!!
Salt and Vinegar is a safe and simple way to remove the gold from many gold bearing items!!
Good on crisps too.
torchandhammer lol so right! (and fish & chips... yummy!)
Well that's a weird Salad!
great instructive video fox
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude I have one 486 DX and one 386 I paid dollar each at a yard sell.
Você comercializa sucata de processador?
Awesome collection mate got abit of $$ there would be a few ounces of gold there am guessing?
He might have a couple of ounces in just the Pentium Pros!! If he processed all of it, he might be looking at a half kilo or more!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
LMFAO!!!! The vegemite did it for me.... LOL!!
Si los mandás a Sudamérica... Argentina dónde vivo, sacás 20 o 30 veces el valor del oro que tengas en todo el lote!!!
Salt and Vinegar on your chips?
Ben:
Brilliant comedy! LOL
What's up My Friend?
Every time i go to the scrap yard, i go up to the booth with the scale master and down on the floor behind him is a brown paper bag full of those yummy old ceramic CPUs just spilling out. It's been just kicked around on the floor FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS, WTF?
OK I went from thinking 'Nooooo! He's processing a Pentium Pro for gold!!!' to 'Am I actually on How2Basics channel?!' 😂😂
if you think about how much this CPU´s would cost togheter with the release price
Any AMD K6 2/3+ CPUs? I will pay quite more than what they are worth in scrap :D Respect to you for having some respect for collectors :)
Looking forward to that Live Stream Ben. I know we will get there eventually, i have faith. 😉😁
Do you do gold recovery yourself or just sell them off? Love your videos!
What is the cost of single piece
I totally lost it when gold bar emergenced.
Well played sir..
Hi my friend, Where i can buy cpu ceramic processor?
Nice collection, there is something magic in those ceramic cpu's, i have only two AMD Duron's ;(
How much gold would you say you had in all the cpus on those tables?
where do you get so many?
I litteraly have tears in my eyes! funny as fook that intro chap :)
Where to buy this all ?