Sell CPU for Gold

The processor (CPU: Central Processing Unit) is the brain of the PC. It contains millions to billions of microscopic transistors and a few hundred gold plated pins. Processors are one of the most value dense portions of the PC. Older processors are generally larger and have more generous gold plating than more modern ones: 386/486 and Pentium chips are particularly valuable.

You can recognize the processor as a large rectangular or square chip that plugs directly into the motherboard. It is usually the largest single chip in the PC. Intel and AMD are the largest PC processor manufacturers; however IBM, ARM, Motorola and others make them as well. The processor often has a heat sink attached to it which may also have a small fan. Heat sinks are typically aluminum, which has little scrap value.

Processors are also found in video cards (there they are called GPUs: Graphics Processing Units), in cell phones, iPods and iPads, and most other electronic devices. Generally only computer processors are large enough and detectable enough to merit separating them.

The value of the processor varies greatly depending on the model. As mentioned above, older processors generally have more precious metal content

Gold in electronic devices

Gold combination of high conductivity and resistance to corrosion has made the precious metal popular in electronic manufacturing process. The main use of gold in electronics has been with the plating of contacts in switches, relays, and connectors. Another of gold’s uses has been in electrical wiring for high-energy applications, but this is rare.

Gold is found in cell phones, calculators, PDAs, and GPS devices today. These gadgets are very common technologies used by people around the world. It is not hard for the contact points of these kinds of devices to get corroded. When tarnish or corrosion occurs, the low voltages and currents used in cell phones and PDA is broken up. Gold efficiently carries the current to these electronics and isn’t subject to the same corrosive wear other metals are.

About 50 cents of gold is used in each cell phone produced today. More often than not, that gold is not recovered from discarded cell phones. With an estimated one billion cell phones manufactured every year that is a large amount of gold that is being wasted. While we have been able with new technology to make gold thinner than ever, the increased number of new technologies has meant that our consumption of gold in electronics has not decreased.

How To Recycle Gold?

Wondering how to recycle gold?

There are many gold metal recyclers available, and most are willing to send you information and the necessary materials you’ll need to package your scrap gold and send it to them. Some companies strive to make the scrap gold recycling process easy for you so you can do your part to help the environment and as an added bonus, earn some money.



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How to sell gold from PCs?

Remove all gold-colored parts from your PC.

Take off the computer casing and take all the parts out. Look closely at each part and set aside any with gold-colored parts. Edge fingers, processors, chips, pins circuits and other parts that are gold colored are what you want to get. Actually those parts are gold plated.

Send all gold-colored parts to a metal scrap refinery. They will offer you for your gold scrap which you can accept or decline. If you accept, the company will send you your money. You can send whole parts in but you might get more for separating all the gold. That is very time consuming though so keep that in mind.

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Scrap gold

Scrap Gold, what is it? Scrap Gold is the term used for the recycling broken jewelry, gold coins and other items that are no longer wanted. Recycling gold has become a large industry, driven by the surge in the price of gold and the current global economic climate.

Scrap Gold Prices The price of gold changes daily and reflects the live spot gold price in your country. Scrap Gold Prices vary between dealers and sellers are advised to shop around for the best price - As always, scrap gold prices offered online will often far outweigh high street prices. It's important to note that the price offered for your jewelry will be lower than the current gold market price as there is a significant process involved in smelting your gold items into raw gold material.

Recycle Broken jewelry Gold mining has a huge environmental impact, the process of excavating and extracting the gold ore - the raw material from which gold is derived, is very environmentally intensive, involving damaging chemicals such as Cyanide and sulphuric acid. Gold has long been regarded as a precious metal and has been intensively south for more than two thousand years. Gold is used in everything from jewellery and electronics to food!

How to sell Gold: Coins and Bars, and where to make a sale?

Today many companies’ promises to buy your gold scrap, still when you want to sell it you should be careful, well informed, and not too greedy. Sure, you want a lot of money when selling your jewelry and other items, but you have to be realistic.

Finding someone to buy your items won’t be hard, but getting good prices takes time and planning.

When you want to sell gold, it is important to know what you have, what it’s worth and know what to expect while selling gold.

Gold coins are one of the commonly sold items. Selling these is a little trickier than going to your local jewelry shop. The first step is to determine whether they are gold bullion coins—basically, gold minted into coin form—or numismatic coins.

Numismatic coins are rare coins that hold special interest for collectors, and their value is based not only on the gold they contain but also their rarity, condition, demand and year of mintage. So keep in mind the type of coin that you have before you try to make a sale. These coins are not just weight and determine carat value for selling price.

Selling gold bullion—in the form of small bars or government issued coins—is fairly straightforward because they come in standard weights and purities, therefore the current prices should be easy to find.

A bar will be stamped with a number that indicates its purity—either .999 or .995. You may even have a certificate of authenticity from when you bought it. You may want to include that certificate when selling bullion that you posses.

Selling coins produced by a government mint can be somewhat easy because they come in standard weights, such as 1-ounce, half-ounce, or quarter-ounce so you can quickly determine the prices. The purity is also standard, the American Buffalo and the Canada Maple Leaf, for example, are .999 while the American Eagle and the South African Krugerrand are .917. More about gold fineness marks you can find on this article.

Like we wrote already the best way to sell jewelry is to first separate it into groups based on purity—14 karat in one pile, 18 karat in another and so on. Then you can weigh the pieces together and know what amount for sale you have.

When you want to sell gold that’s old jewelry and other scrap metal—dental fillings or crowns, nuggets, or electronic components—you might not know the weight and purity. A local jewelry shop can help you by weighing the pieces on a scale, and testing the purity with a Carat test kit.

When selling bars, coins or other valuables, make sure the clerk weighs your pieces in front of you, and if you don’t trust their scale, test it yourself. Weigh a nickel on the scale. U.S. nickels always weigh 5 grams. If the scale says anything less than 4.9 grams, walk away and find somewhere else to sell your bullion. You want to find the best prices possible, but you don’t want to go selling your items to buyers who won’t give you accurate prices.

Scrap gold - how to sell it?

Scrap Gold Buying Rip Off

Many jewelers & dealers advertising to buy scrap gold jewelry in the UK are ripping people off with low prices & misleading claims.

We contribute our advice and expert opinion. With 9 Carat Gold Worth £7 Per Gram Many Jewelers are Paying £4 Per Gram or Less So if your item is worth £100, you are only getting paid £56 for it, and the buyer is making £44, or a 79% mark-up. Some dealers pay much less, and therefore make even higher and more obscene profits.

We heard of one paying only £1 per gram (approximately)! The £1 Billion Scrap Gold Buying Rip Off The world supply of scrap gold for recycling was 586 tone of fine gold in the first quarter of 2009. This equates to about £44 billion at current prices. It is difficult to know what proportion of this came from the UK, but even if was as little as 2% to 3%, this would work out at over £2 billion in the UK. From our brief research, many small traders are paying about half the true value for scrap gold, meaning that UK owners of gold scrap are being ripped-off by £1 billion per annum.

Our Advice Our advice to owners of scrap gold and second-hand jewelry is to shop around, but more importantly find out the weight (most people use grams), of your gold, know what carat it is, and make sure you get a sensible price for it.

Remember there are 31.1035 grams per troy ounce. Divide the troy ounce price by 31.1035 to convert to a price per gram. For gold carat, multiply by the cartages and divide by 24, so for example £ x 9 /24 = intrinsic value of 9 carat gold. If the fineness is expressed as a percentage or millesimally (9ct =37.5% or .375) the calculation is even easier (£ x .375).

Recycling Costs

Nobody in their right mind is going to pay you the full intrinsic value of scrap gold, because there are refining costs, and other losses and expenses to deduct. For example hallmarks are often faked on gold-plated base metal jewelry, so scrap needs to be checked, and often acid-tested.

There are also other losses. Dirt and contamination often account for about 1% loss. American jewelry manufacturers are legally allowed a half carat tolerance, which they usually take advantage of, so that 10 karat gold is often only 9.5 carats (that is a 5% loss on its own).

The scrap buyer expects to make a profit, so if you have scrap gold to sell, you should hope to get about 90% of its intrinsic value.

For smaller amounts you should expect about 80% to 85%, while for large and regular quantities, of clean well-sorted scrap, a trade seller might achieve around 95%.

Our research shows that many jewelers and market traders are only paying between 15% and 60% of the true value.

Typical Scrap Gold Categories

• Nine Carat (9ct) Hallmarked Gold
• Nine Carat (9ct) Unhallmarked Gold
• Fourteen Carat (14ct) Hallmarked Gold
• Fourteen Carat (14ct) Unhallmarked Gold
• Fifteen Carat (15ct) Hallmarked Gold
• Fifteen Carat (15ct) Unhallmarked Gold
• Eighteen Carat (18ct) Hallmarked Gold
• Eighteen Carat (18ct) Unhallmarked Gold
• Twenty Two Carat (22ct) Hallmarked Gold
• Twenty Two Carat (22ct) Unhallmarked Gold


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