CPU's Gold Recovery or Collectibles?

To Recover Gold or Sell CPU's as Collectibles.
That's the question.
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[@msylvain59]

Impressive pile, looks like you just got inside the Aladdin's cave of scrap !

[@ScibyTravels]

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.

[@audacyspectrum3612]

Agreed!

[@ursamines7643]

I don’t know what I loved better: you laughing at your own shenanigan or the fact that they have “American mustard”

[@peterg.8245]

“Mild” American mustard!!! As if it wasn’t a bland condiment to start!?!

[@ursamines7643]

Peter G. Any mustard is better no mustard...but yeah that was funny.

[@shaunyshaun86]

And hp sauce its from the uk bet americans dont have that

[@ursamines7643]

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.

[@shaunyshaun86]

@@ursamines7643 it goes really well with a bacon sandwich 😍

[@sharkscrapper]

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.

[@barrywest3758]

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!🤓🤣

[@WaynesStrangeBrain]

I have not laughed this hard in a while, good GOING

[@wozzajayscrapping9056]

Love your videos. Was looking forward to one like this. And you made me laugh😂

[@judicare]

Hahahaha you're Mutley laugh in the Delia Gold Soup made me laugh so much. Well made Ben!!!

[@donniebrown2896]

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

[@Crackcoiner]

I can only agree

[@jeffreykroll1170]

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.

[@ms.digitalpiggy9274]

Dude! 30 seconds in and I was rolling on the floor! Good stuff man!

[@dlovett1771]

NASA still uses 486. Hubble telescope runs on a 486 - low power usage and stronger protection against radiation.

[@marcaxe]

Also a bit of a hassle to upgrade .

[@CruiserMac]

Very interesting Ben, never thought about all the CPU variations !

[@Lukas-jr8jx]

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.

[@connectorxp]

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.

[@ETERNAL_MODS]

1000%% i prefer to keep and re-dress pins of pentium and if they work or not i keep it

[@RafalScrapper]

wow love your refining method haha great job

[@jeffreykroll1170]

I actually belly laughed when I heard you snicker. Good on you. Awesome channel and thanks for that.

[@sharkscrapper]

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).

[@donniebrown2896]

I take donations. Lol no international mail.😜😜😀

[@hugoperez7044]

Hi Ben. Good videos! I enjoyed a lot

[@streetcopper1151]

Thanks Ben for all you teach us .. between you shark and moose a guy can learn a ton

[@donniebrown2896]

The three were my favorites, but then I started watching sreetips. He is a serious "refiner" .9999 silver? He does it

[@streetcopper1151]

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

[@CuSTACKS]

Ben, thanks for the informative info 👍 you're a pro! I would keep the good ones like you said and recover the rest.

[@samuelh1766]

That intro made me laugh! Great video ben :)

[@iloveACID]

New sub. This made me choke and spit my coffee on my self. Gold

[@true_neutral_bg2]

Four minutes in and got everything I needed to get my nice Perth bar, thanks!

[@wghead]

Hilarious!! Love the videos!

[@vincentbloomfield5776]

Nice collection!

[@nickthefox4596]

The beginning of this video gave me how to basic flashbacks

[@shaun27ful]

Great video just started watching 👍

[@shaun27ful]

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 😁👍

[@bigcountryscrapper6885]

Awsome video

[@Dirt-Diggler]

I litteraly have tears in my eyes! funny as fook that intro chap :)

[@franckaleksander6435]

great instructive video fox

[@rickzimmerman5557]

Love it!

[@pederlindstrom3132]

Oh yeah,, this must be the new show Cooking with Ben

[@999fine5]

Looking forward to that Live Stream Ben. I know we will get there eventually, i have faith. 😉😁

[@RoadgamerTV]

"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 !! 😉

[@andrewwitkowski8150]

greatest intro to a video EVER on youtube

[@gortnewton4765]

This is what Benny has for breakfast every morning! The breakfast of champions.

[@shaneyork300]

You got it!!

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

RICH IN IRON AND GOLD !!!!

[@ClintonsMOISTlips]

Do you do gold recovery yourself or just sell them off? Love your videos!

[@UserUnknown8570]

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!

[@professorsip7242]

Well played sir..

[@mdeshkov2207]

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

[@raymondcote6669]

Funny Ben. Good one

[@iainlynch2909]

Now you are just making us hungry :)

[@davidhauschild5584]

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.

[@joohop]

Dig A Hole In The Garden And Bury Em Ben , Blessings From Birmingham England UK

[@lonewolfgeoff]

joohop yay! great one! (jeezz i miss brum ☹️ especially digging up those processors! 😂😂😂)

[@joohop]

@@lonewolfgeoff Ya Flamin Bogan How Do You Know Brum ?

[@lonewolfgeoff]

joohop born and grew up there til i was 34, folks still live there 😊

[@joohop]

@@lonewolfgeoff Blimey That's Bonzer Onya Fella

[@donniebrown2896]

Same here, blessings from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

[@todortenkov527]

I can watch it again..and again... 1000 times

[@scrapitaus]

Damn bro you got a huge collection I only have like 60 Pentiums

[@CollectorChronicles]

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.

[@jmanuel509]

Nice big collection CPUs

[@FollowMe2aMillion]

I believe the collectable value will raise with the price of gold although I also think there will be a lag time of a few months for each jump.

[@mgomez91792]

Wow . Ive been collecting mother boards and othe board , video , sound cards can we do that to boards it self

[@mauriliozamora6627]

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 !

[@davidranew4851]

Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude I have one 486 DX and one 386 I paid dollar each at a yard sell.

[@attilavidacs24]

That looks delicious. Love the Milo

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

WOW AND WOW AGAIN - VINEGAR AND TOMATO KETCHUP - WOW !!!! ANOTHER VERY GOOD VIDEO - WE LOVE IT HERE - THANKS !!!!

[@jasonevans977]

Haha love your work ben 😆😆

[@bantalee2002]

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?

[@dr.a006]

Nice collection of square “gold coins” It would be awesome to refine all that into bullion.

[@WONDERFULREPTILES]

THIS IS PARADISE OF CPU GOLD

[@christiancampbell8252]

How much gold would you say you had in all the cpus on those tables?

[@pedrotosato]

Hahaha, I really liked this begging! Greetings from Brazil! Stay Healthy!

[@PitsuMiwus]

Nice collection, there is something magic in those ceramic cpu's, i have only two AMD Duron's ;(

[@RichardSaramago]

where do you get so many?

[@currencyplanet2497]

Where to buy this all ?

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

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.

[@greekgods3399]

love it

[@michaelconnors5480]

You should do a scrap festival id totally come 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@TheLorkM]

it's got for a fortune on the table, crazy !

[@williammiller7362]

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.

[@scottalan8275]

Do you have any Altera Ceramic CPUs?

[@kylebarnes3262]

Love your videos, i know this question is gonna be nearly impossible to answer but if you was forced to give an answer or just guess, How much gold in weight do you think you would have if you melted down EVERYTHING you have from in your collection that youve saved? Eg, cpu's, gold fingers, pins etc? Like i say i know its impossible to answer but if you had to guess? Your a clever clever man to do thimgs the way your doing, cheers for the videos :)

[@audacyspectrum3612]

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!

[@g7santaclaus511]

i wish i had that many cpu's :( thats so much thats treasure right there tho =(

[@florinbalan5153]

Nice ,you start and finish like How to basic !!🤣🤣🤣

[@bensmallwood8392]

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.

[@lemonrev]

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]

@@lemonrev you know of any way without chemicals to remove all metals from board?(except chips)

[@lemonrev]

@@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.

[@roysantoalla6878]

Hi my friend, Where i can buy cpu ceramic processor?

[@teddybear1829]

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

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Brilliant comedy! LOL

[@shaneyork300]

What's up My Friend?

[@billmelater9327]

How do you get your computers? How do you get contracts and computers given to you?

[@eWasteBen]

advertising, flyers and 6 years of pushing for work

[@LUZ-zv6pq]

Salt and Vinegar on your chips? Ben:

[@Chaosman88]

I'm mind blown about the size of that cpu lot.. and when you said 70% of your collection is not even there..

[@classicgameguru]

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.

[@armancarmanc5895]

Is there a place where I can buy porcelain ceramic intel pentium pro cpu?

[@rainbow736]

What is the cost of single piece

[@todortenkov527]

Noo way.. you kidding me...😁😁😁😁

[@ETERNAL_MODS]

its crazy how much he have in cpu :p i love it

[@issamharkati5168]

Do you sell to france? I want to try gold recovery

[@Dxceor2486]

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

[@Timothy--vb7rr]

Well that's a weird Salad!

[@TechCellfish]

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.

[@tomtinkersrezlife278]

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

[@yardmine]

Killer stack

[@Thatgaycoincollector]

Jeez, Ben must have 1/2 the worlds ceramic cpus!

[@barrymoore4977]

nice stash

[@jimsworthow531]

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-

[@acreditaquemquer8961]

Você comercializa sucata de processador?

[@robertsanders7802]

At first I saw the vinegar and was like he doesn’t think that is all he has to do is it? Then saw the rest 😂

[@5pr1nk57]

OK I went from thinking 'Nooooo! He's processing a Pentium Pro for gold!!!' to 'Am I actually on How2Basics channel?!' 😂😂

[@moosescrapper5928]

LMFAO!!!! The vegemite did it for me.... LOL!!

[@shaneyork300]

I'm done watching now! You want the opinions of your friends and or viewers! I think you're spot on, as far as setting aside the ones you mentioned for a collection. The ones not worth collecting as you said put in for gold recovery!! For your channel, I think 1 out of 20 or 30 videos you could do the simple and safe gold recovery! I'd LOVE it as I mentioned in 2 or 3 previous comments on this one video! Doesn't really matter what the price of gold is! Because like the bars of gold you buy, you could get the same thing for pennies on the dollar! You could get an ounce of gold for $25.00 to $75.00 or so in chemicals! I know you would be GREAT AT GOLD RECOVERY!! It would take some practice and studying, but the end result would be well worth it!! GO FOR IT BEN!!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!!!

[@champlainscrap6076]

Wow that's a lot of CPU's :)

[@ewastemike7700]

If it was only that wasy. LOL. On the other hand it looked quite tasty.

[@roberthopping7295]

that a aussie dinner there lol