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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rdwarrior, post: 848033, member: 20091&quot;]I have looked into this a bit in the past, what I found out is you have to stick to really old computers pentium 2 and older. almost all of the gold is in the CPU, a little on the edge connectors and practically none any where else. CPUs newer then the pentium 2 have very little gold in them. I could find no actual info on how much gold is each CPU, I do know there are tiny wires connecting the silicon chip to the packaging which are gold and the chip sets on a bed of gold for heat transfer (i believe this is a very thin gold plating). </p><p>If you do succeed in finding enough of the older computers to make salvaging them worth while, you will have the problem in disposing of all of the parts with no gold (monitors, drives ...etc) And then it takes some pretty strong acid to dissolve the gold and then the disposal of the hazardous waste when your done.</p><p>Most of the people doing this are in 3rd world countries where they have no problems with the waste issues.</p><p>In a nut shell, do not try it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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