Full PC Scrap for Gold & Precious Metals

This is how I generally scrap PC's for gold recovery items and stuff.
Modern pc's can be lower in value but there's still plenty of gold from pins, ic chips, ram and the cpu.
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Palladium from MLCC's are lower, probably less silver but still enough to make scrapping computers worth while.
To depopulate boards I use a cheap air hammer attached to an entry level air compressor, it's fast, easy and fun.

[@riverboat28]

Thanks for all the videos Ben, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence with my comment on using punches...it was meant for people just starting out. I've learned so much from you and appreciate it. Thanks

[@guillermosantana1565]

Thank you for sharing this free video learned from it and will share I too recycle and the information was much valuable. Thanks again from the Dominican Republic Guillermo.

[@vanbemme]

great video Ben as always...thank you!

[@piperdoug428]

Hey there Ben, i love the longer and more indepth vids bud, keep em comin.

[@kusemalastking5443]

Lpkkkkkp

[@unabeard]

Capacitors: The mid size and bigger if you take a razor blade and peel off plastic, they have a good amount of prime copper spool that is easy to remove and adds up pretty quickly. I would not recommend the small capacitors, as it takes to much work to retrieve the copper, but they have copper spool as well if you have the time. More FREE Copper to add to pile and a bit more $$$ squeezed out!

[@theobscurity9392]

my luck of course I went to open up an old pc only to find a huge wasp nest and I had pissed them all off. that hurt.

[@NeoGen1987]

I'm so sorry for you

[@jherb7159]

Wtf, that's some crazy badluck

[@gamecockmike175]

@@jherb7159 That sounds like my kind of luck. I use to tear old computers down for the parts. You never know when someone may need something. Anyway I got tired of computer repair but if I would have known I damn sure what have kept every single parts. I think I may have a few cpu chips back there but not enough for me to get up and look

[@judybeckner5623]

Thanks for sharing Ben

[@chronojeremy]

I am a computer repair person and have saved all pc parts since the 80s just to scrap we have just started and already made enough to buy 3 new computers and are working on more so its worth it if you have lots of parts with gold that are sitting around collecting dust,

[@dreamrealitysyndrome]

Do you need to isolate the gold out of the parts? Or can you scrap parts wholly?

[@lensrc7460]

There are two neo magnets in the lazer head of those cd drives. Usually a nice little rectangle around .25 in. I use them for all sorts of things. They are on either side of the lens, under that thin shielding.

[@justanotherperson4300]

Man its hard to watch you scraping good stuff

[@michalbalecki2407]

Yes

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

yeah I look to see if the hardware works before I scrap it, usually if it works it sells for more then the PMs on it are worth.

[@pacoblancosmith]

Awesome...I'll have to check it out. I know they're silver inn the sides and no markings on them.

[@libertadparasiempre809]

Good video Ben, thank you

[@themadhacker9376]

Keep the dvd lasers, build a death ray :P

[@RighBread]

I'd be all over those hard drives. Even 100 gbs would be a precious find. Data storage is expensive as hell, so anything that you can get for free is fantastic.

[@dantyler1558]

Oh man! That was a rare motherboard!!! You could rebuild th... an air hammer... Never mind.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

right worth seeing if work and their value before ripping things apart

[@jaydaksrules5316]

on those sound card take some of the solder mask off to check if the whole board is gold plated. iv found a few nice creative ones that are just covered even the steel bracket is gold plated!!

[@bigbassjonz]

Have you thought about doing your gold and precious metal separation and extraction? It is a tedious process but it looks like you have enough supply to make it worth while.

[@jancarlorubio910]

where do you sell your de-populated chips? or the circuit chips? or sell your gold recovery chips for that matter? thank you!

[@shaneyork300]

That crumble could take awhile. Looks like a lot of fun to sort through. Just sit back in the evening, maybe watch some tv. Have about 10 to 20 containers ready to put them in!

[@pacoblancosmith]

Great video once again, Ben! How do you know what are MLCC's and the valuable resistors (from your other vids) after you've depopulated the board using this method? Or does this refining process(s) separate out the precious metals from both? Thanks!

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith I just sort through the crumble and take things out, if there's a lot of mlcc's, i'll pick them off before I use the air hammer

[@montydaniels1054]

@eWaste Ben. Ben, I like how you de-populate the motherboard's. I also learned about the MLCC's with palladium. What all contains palladium on motherboards and drive cards? Dan

[@eWasteBen]

palladium is mostly in mlcc's everything else is to hard to find palladium

[@aaronwest2402]

I have a audio slot card that's entirely gold plated. Scrape the green if it's light green colored. Sometimes gold plated PCB layer underneath

[@TomlinsTE]

Thanks for sharing, I learned a lot. I don't understand why anyone would want to buy the ravaged motherboard after you're done with it though. Will they reuse the remaining components? Repurpose the board? Desperately recycle the remaining bits?

[@debbiewright792]

scraped my first PC was smiling thinking about a PC lol keep on scrapping

[@karlsolitario8013]

Where do you get all those computers? Cool videos btw! really helpful!

[@blockbuter0966]

Hey ben, i was wondering how much money the gold pins on a cpu give. I havent gotten the pins and weighted them yet

[@DracironSmith]

The rods in the DVD drives are sometimes Stainless, especially older ones. The motors is on DVD is actually really easy to pull and get into. A few screws and it's off. A quick hammer hit to pop the top off, then needlenose pliers to pull out the copper. The brass rod, though check it, sometimes those are aluminum rather than brass pops out. It has a small magnet at the tip that I crunch off with a hammer. The smaller board I put in my low value board pile. The hard drives are usually easy to take apart. The outer case on really old ones might be aluminum. They are usually low grade Stainless on newer drives. The platters are almost always aluminum. The tips of the heads have a precious metal, and that was why I watched the video, was I am trying to learn exactly what and how to remove but it's worth a lot of money. The rest of the heads are usually aluminum and steel.

[@sonalpatel6119]

Good Work

[@bjrnjohanmariboe6026]

I wish we could get payed for scrap steel in Norway but here we have to pay to deliver it. Isn't that a bit crazy. Love to see your videos. Currently it is -12 celsius out in my scrapper garage so not much fun scrapping here now even if I really should have gone through all the motherboards I have stockpiled.

[@sl-cl8gz]

Informative thanks. Quick question for you do people really buy de-populated motherboards? I mean I honestly I don't see the value in it... saving the scrap board, unless you can go through and get some gold out of it maybe

[@spangledchela1108]

Thank you for your informative video. Why do they buy the scrapped boards? What are they doing with them?

[@bochapman1058]

is there a video on the best methods to collect materials? like maybe buying broken boards in bluk?

[@ruebenmikoch1828]

DVD readers have 2 motors, laser diode, 2 small neo magnets, a bunch of optics, and a bit of aluminium for the carriage or plastic

[@pacoblancosmith]

Thanks, Ben. I will follow your advice from your other vids as well and pick what I can prior to any scraping. I watched your MLCC's vs. inductors (?) again today and have made myself a chart based on all your info. Are all resistors marked with an "R" containing ruthinium? I will try to locate your vid on that. Cheers! Patrick

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith no only thick film resistors have ruthenium, they are flat and have a number on top

[@xylz1798]

+eWaste Ben but ben is that the flat black,green,n blue,n purples ones that range in size?

[@eWasteBen]

+Nate Chaps yep, with numbers like 370, 450 etc

[@TheWinalot]

Hey dude, I'm sure someones already said it or you've worked it out, but the "stuff" on cpus is thermal paste, the good stuff is made from silver.

[@pacoblancosmith]

Thanks again, Ben, for clarifying all this. Now I understand about the thick film resistors ( from your vid on the subject- went back and viewed it again last night) NOT being the MLCC's looking resistors. Other than removing the thick filmed, I'm not too concerned with mixing the others. I'll get what I get from a refiner at this point. But I will try to keep the resistors in the mix to a minimum. Are those occasional, bright red capacitors MLCC's as wel?

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith They are Tantalum Capacitors if the code is "C" if the code is "L" they are Inductors and no value, usually the red inductors have black tops and red sides.

[@letsply1448]

eWaste Ben

[@goldbunny1973]

CPU fans/HS's cost £10+ in the UK. If the heatsink was undamaged I'd convert it into a funky desk clock or candle holder. Many things can & should be directly re-purposed by creative bods rather than be scrapped for raw metal ; ) Still a good video though!

[@hucks33]

Hi Ben, today I scrapped my first heat sink with the piece of copper rod inside. I put the heat sink on two bricks with the copper above the gap then I punched it out with a steel bar and hammer. What a lovely piece of copper, reminds me of an ingot. Looking forward to getting more of these. Great vids Ben. keep them coming.

[@eWasteBen]

+hucks33 I call them copper stackers because they're great to stack like bullion.

[@Prod.Datboi]

I want all the hard drives from every computer

[@maxboya]

Why is that?

[@historicalfootprints9642]

Great video Ben. U might need a bigger truck!

[@eWasteBen]

+Tom Geer thanks, yeah my van gets smaller everyday it seems

[@tristangwithian4010]

Prescient, Ben! There are neodymium magnets in that dvd reader "eye" and the price of those has gone up 50% just this year (nearly five years after your video).

[@Chris_Ford]

This man reminds me of something, thats it a vulture. I'm here to learn as I am starting an e-waste business, I learned a lot.

[@markbean832]

I have an ewaste facility here in the US. Yes you can scrap alot of old computers. But refurbishing alot of them will bake you alot more money. Selling each PC for at the lowest of $60-70. Make a windows bootable USB "its free" and off you go. Scrapping them will only bring about $2k-3k usd monthly But refurbishing and scrapping makes at least $8k monthly

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

so once you've made such a huge mess with that air chisel.... how do you clean and seperate all those pins that just scattered everywhere and got stuck in the carpet? in most cases with expansion slots and such, you can just work a flat head screwdriver under the plastic connector and slowly, carefully pry upward pulling the pins through the plastic, then take a pait of side cutters and clip them all off at the base pretty easily... much less of a mess to pick over with tweezers later on.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Thank you fore this clip👍😊

[@donnierobertson3088]

Nice job

[@montydaniels1054]

@eWaste Ben. Hi Ben, I did learn a bit more from your video. One thing is I take out the hard drive platters and the drive motors and save them in other boxes. I'm up to 12 pounds in platters now. But here's two questions I wanted to ask you is, is there any silver on the motherboards and cards. Also question two, you mentioned you also take off the MLCC's, what's the story with them? Thanks for a great video, Dan

[@eWasteBen]

silver is all over circuit boards but it's too costly to recover for what it's worth, best going for gold, palladium from mlcc's etc but crystals might be worth picking off for silver

[@montydaniels1054]

Ben, I never knew the hard drive boards have gold plate on each side.... I have 60 boards right now, so I'm gonna go to the garage to see what else I have tucked away. I edited this comment because i found my test kit and checked the hard drive boards, which turned out to be copper plating on both sides. Glad I watched this video because your way is the best by far when it comes to stripping off boards. I learned a lot from watching your videos.

[@Aco747lyte]

Stripping out the pure copper from the wires all adds up.

[@spidermcgavenport8767]

Any chance of you keeping some of those vintage working graphics card's and selling them on eBay, cause if you find a Matrox card keep them their great for retro vintage gaming in dos.

[@spidermcgavenport8767]

Even keeping those older power supplies for bench power supplies, and use them to run a car amp and deck for house usages in a game room.

[@pacoblancosmith]

Oh, Good Lord, I'm not doing any processing beyond the AP method to strip gold from the boards....I'll find someone else to buy my stuff, etc. although I am going to try the reverse electroplating method soon....

[@JFDhater]

those pins that are gold plated, the plating is only about 3 microns thick. just the same as the "fingers" (interface pins of addon cards). I have already once tried to isolate all the gold from all the parts that were gold plated from 9 motherboards (All ASUS P5-A) and used concentrated acids (nitric and sulfuric) to extract the net worth of gold from them. I ended up with (in total) a solid gold nugget that weighed 7 grams. that's it.

[@ExileMMO]

Jay T do it with 1000 boards on an industrial scale.

[@richay1]

I feel like if i could get all of the parts and knew how to do chemistry safely i would work so hard because that ball of gold only gets bigger.

[@bhelmbreck]

You got 7 grams and think "that's it?" wtf did you think you were going to get, several ounces? Can you do math?

[@shorelinearmorllc477]

Isn't that like 300$ seems like a minimum wage paycheck for a week for practically doing nothing.

[@liamhoward2208]

Yes people. There is better yield in CPUs than there is in traditional ore mining. It takes 1 ton of ore to yield 1 gram of gold. 6 gram yield from a CPU in your house is way more economical. The problem is scaling, sourcing and the environmental impact. E-waste is the largest growing waste sector and is estimated that 7% of the worlds gold is tied up into it. Invent a solution that strips gold off as soon as you dip the part into it, environmentally friendly and can be recycled. Boom. Billionaire.

[@robgrujicic5380]

Hello there from Montreal Canada 🇨🇦 I learned a lot from you is there another way of depopulating I don’t have that tool that you using love your videos and your work thank you for sharing 😃🍺👊🇨🇦

[@RonioFOX]

hard drive is really worth selling, if you scrap it you can get a lot of money on the magnets

[@bantalee2002]

wow.. you hit the motherload. good vid Ben.

[@eWasteBen]

+bantalee2002 thanks, you should see what I picked up today, was a megga motherload

[@geneticrabbit]

+eWaste Ben what did you pick up today?

[@eWasteBen]

+geneticrabbit A whole load of pc's & servers

[@bantalee2002]

geneticrabbit That is great and good for you. It appears Australia has an abundance of e-waste and it appears your timing is right being in the right business. About a year ago a small e-waste recycler decided to rent a tractor trailer,he advertised via radio that his truck will be parked in the lot of a shopping center in my village town. My god he made at least 3 hauls over the weekend. Have you given that a try?,.because i bet you would have enough work cut out for you for at least a couple years. good job Ben keeping the stuff out of the ecosystem.

[@brucewhite9657]

Who, or where do you sell the boards to?? I have always wondered about that. I never thought about actually doing any of this (process) till I started watching your channel. Thanx man, got a sub. 👍

[@eWasteBen]

in the states there's boardsort.com

[@amirharati4806]

Thanks for your useful video I find a lot of motherboards"old/new/laptop/pc" and he sell them for 1.5$ for each one without cpu is it a good deal?

[@zackcat276]

That air hammer idea is awesome and works great. Did you ever think about trying to put a sharper edge on the chisel and that way maybe it would cut the pins better instead of bending them down. Just a thought since I learn a lot from you, I thought I'd try to offer my thoughts.

[@eWasteBen]

+zackcat276 The point of the chisel gets blunt doing a lot of boards but yeah, sharp is good for those pins, some still bend but not as many

[@zackcat276]

+eWaste Ben yep i got ya. like I said before, just trying to share my opinions to a fellow scrapper. have a good one

[@wydeawake5941]

great vid mate. how do u pick up all the pins?

[@eWasteBen]

+Wyde Awake usually use a little vacuum cleaner, when you do many boards at one time the pins build up high so just pick 'em up by hand

[@davida.2623]

How do you differentiate the low grade boards,high grade boards. And how do you recover the gold. Not familiar with electronic scrap other then the cords.

[@user-jk6ri8gf1u]

A question please i have been collecting, gold from tel, palladium silver platinum, ram boards, sailboat, monitor, tv, tablet, do you know a factory where it is made? thank you greece

[@jamesfoo8999]

You probs already know, but in case, some of the parts in these older PCs are worth much more as a full unit than the gold you'd get off them. For example, 2nd hand DDR3 RAM is pricey still at the moment. £20-£30 per stick on eBay etc

[@TheUndert0ker]

Kind of sad how much stuff we manufacture as a civilization that ends up as obsolete junk. That computer may still have functioned, but its utility probably isn't that good if you want to run modern software. All of those components are objects that took a tremendous amount of time and energy to design and manufacture, from mining the raw metals out of the ground to designing the circuits in a CAD program down to the assembly line that put it all together to sell to some customer. This is better than dumping it in a landfill though.

[@dimitriyalousi7279]

TheUndert0ker Very true mate, never really thought of it like that.

[@clownclownolulu7897]

Ever heard of the buddhist practice of sand painting mandalas? I think this can be viewed in a similar way.

[@03supto]

Planned obsolescence

[@cccpredarmy]

if you think about it in middle ages they made those fancy, high quality, totally handmade pieces of armor. Today it's only the historical value that makes them valuable. In fact a huge amounts of those were also scrapped and recycled back in the days. A worn and damaged beyond repair piece of medieval armor was melted again to make something else...

[@robertdowney28]

Ya, granted technology is always evolving. However 95% of the waste in the world is from planned obsolescence, or greed I guess would be a better way to put it.

[@cuntontheweb2657]

You would get allot more for the power supply if you would sell them with the cables still attached!

[@davidmarek6141]

yes, this is idiot.... You can reuse those componentrs or sell those.... It´s idiot

[@RighBread]

He does it primarily as a hobby, not money. He has stated endlessly that yes, he does resell some bits and pieces that he finds, but he's not interested in opening up a used old junky PC parts store. He'd rather scrap out all the components and get some enjoyment out of it. Besides, it's all taken from piles that are destined for a landfill anyhow, so he can do what he wants with them. Getting precious metals and parts out of a PC is infinitely better than letting it rot in a garbage heap.

[@vipervidsgamingplus5723]

OEM power supplies from Dell HP Acer Asus or other companies like that don't ever do much and are usually the first thing to be replaced anyway

[@montydaniels1054]

I've taken used PSU's that I've purchased and a month later the motherboard got fried. I was told if you leave a used PSU sitting too long, it can go bad. The capacitors go bad if left too long without being used. The thing is, can I trust someone I don't know who's claiming the one I just bought has been used till 3 days ago, or was it actually sitting in some guys closet for 9 months.

[@alcadzbetz]

Thats ok. He has unlimited resources...

[@thomasdavid6730]

Hi Ben those little fiddly motors are a bit of a pain ..true...but they can go in as a copper bearing motor ..25 Cents a lb vs. 4 cents a lb...same as the motors in the fans ...a little , but it does add up :) do you just leave the copper on the boards ?

[@eWasteBen]

+Thomas David yeah those little bits of copper are over ferrite so the price I get for the boards, it works out the same

[@thomasdavid6730]

ic ..unfortunately only 15c here .. .

[@pacoblancosmith]

One more thing....can I trouble you to point me towards the identification process on which IC's to save for gold content? Or steer me to one of your existing vids on the subject? Thanks again for all the tremendous help to all of us getting started!

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith all ic's can have gold, from crt tv's to pc's to anything, so we keep all ic's

[@RaincloudTheDragonXD]

pc builders: careful, this is a very expensive part and we don't want to break it pc scrappers: 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕘𝕠𝕝𝕕, 𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕥 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣

[@madsholmberg1612]

yeah that is right but they are old boards no one is gonna use them

[@pacoblancosmith]

Thanks for answering my comments, Ben. Can you tell the difference in the MLCC's and resistors after depopulating?? Without the "R" & "C" labeling n the board, they'd all look the same to me (for the most part). Again, I've been at the hobbyist level for a little over a year with maybe 100 pc's and a few dozen printers but moving into the next level this Spring here in the States. I love it and have learned a number of new things from your vids.

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith oh ok, your talking about resistors that look like mlcc's, thought you meant thick film. the only way to get pure mlcc is to pick by hand off the board, this is why in my mlcc video I say not to buy them loose because you won't know if they are all mlcc. But refining yourself or getting someone to refine for you, it don't matter if resistors are mixed in with mlcc's because all that you will notice is less palladium & silver because resistors don't have it, they won't affect the refining process because mlcc's also have other metals aside from palladium & silver. you can keep two jars for mlcc's, one for the big ones that you pick off and from high end server boards, hard drive boards etc, and another jar for little mlcc's that would be mixed with resistors or ones your not sure of.

[@wiselinkmarque3947]

I sell the components on ebay, always a lot more money than recycling them. Edit: yep just sold a 486 motherboard for 20 bucks shipped.

[@cccpredarmy]

i think it depends on the amount you get your hands on. This guy obviously has access to tons over tons of old electronics so he makes the best out of it. You'll never find so many customers for all that old electronics. However I'm certain best way to make $ out of it is to sell tiny bit on ebay and scrap the rest.

[@jasonsachs6688]

@@cccpredarmy yep, kinda like me. Buying stuff off eBay for this purpose. Lol.

[@spidermcgavenport8767]

Say Ben would you find yourself harvesting components off of uma graphics desktop board's rather than that of dedicated graphics cards.

[@StayingInYourOwnLane]

So these gold pins... how much do you get for them by the kg when scrapping?

[@user-xk3zp1gr3f]

Is it worth depopulating instead if selling it just as boards ? How much you get for depopulated board ?

[@user-jk6ri8gf1u]

are there factories outside the opium canal with gold recycling? if so where and at what cost? Thanks in advance

[@berenscott8999]

The thing is, PC scrapping is awesome, server scapping definitely is more profitable. But, I think your missing out on a great option here, and that is IT services. Business has a bunch of computers, they pay you $3 per unit for freight, $8 to test / document the system, $8 to wipe the hard drive 3 pass. Then, if it's working, you take a 30% commission on the sale. Anything that works, you sell, anything that doesn't, you scrap. But, at the end of the day, you earn way more money without ever having to open a single case up.

[@eWasteBen]

that's a different business, there's many things an e-waste recycler can do like data destruction, de-racking, De-commissioning servers etc for an hourly fee, also selling hot dogs from the van on the way home is profitable.

[@berenscott8999]

eWaste Ben From my experience, the two can go very much hand in hand. For example, when I worked in IT asset management, there was always a tonne of gear that couldn't be sold, needed recycling. What would occur, is they would have some recycling partner who would take most of this gear by the stillage. But, effectively, I always thought that having some form of onsite recycling was a better method, or scraping. I used to strip servers, and had to cherry pick which had the most amount of resale vs the amount of time spent on each. When you consider that the IT asset management is your method of essentially getting companies to pay you to dispose of the gear, an unlimited supply of old equipment sitting in businesses all around the country in little basement rooms, then having the size and the scale to essentially get way better pricing for your commodities. I loved watching your video's, there's a lot I guessed about how the job should be done, but didn't quite know for sure until seeing your process. I am currently out of this industry though, but it was good fun.

[@eWasteBen]

There's a big step for me to play with the larger IT recyclers, I deal with some who handle large corporations IT assets, but they don't get paid usually, there's a lot of competition for IT at the high level so they're paying big bucks and bending over backwards for it. What I found is a much bigger pool of e-waste that big companies can't get too, and free aside from time. big co's don't send trucks to offices to pick up a trolley load of e-waste, think about your local business district, thousands of little offices in big buildings, all with that little basement room of e-waste. They are small biz' and generally understaffed and busy who are only looking for a way to free up room, they have no interest in e-waste aside from wanting it recycled properly but they don't want to pay, so the balance is they get free recycling, I get free e-waste that I either sell or scrap to get that value from. It may not be as big a biz' as it could be but it's a layed back biz' for me. I don't buy and I don't charge, so I have no need for invoicing, it's a simple biz' but it is a niche it itself that works. But I did once sell hot dogs out front of a nightclub, I actually made more money too :)

[@berenscott8999]

eWaste Ben Yeah, definitely, but I will tell you, there is one entity that takes the cake for eWaste, and that is definitely government. The amount of stuff that flowed out of our biggest government department was crazy. The vast majority being recycling. Anything goes. Free is a good, but another thing that works is when you charge a fee, but you tell them that the sales money will recoup enough so that you can return money back to them. I think from my experience, breaking into this area is not difficult, if you have all the infrastructure in place, a vehicle, storage and the contacts to sell the gear, it's not difficult, and it's highly financially rewarding.

[@pascualvasquezjr.6285]

Would you have an approximate dollar amount per computer that you scrap out you're way? I really like you're videos.

[@William.Shakespeare]

there is a small amount of platinum in the hard drives . easy google search , plus rare earth magnets that are strong enough to hold a sledge maker on you shed wall.

[@joelrodriguez3568]

How much money can you make recovering this way?

[@William.Shakespeare]

ive gotten some big ass nuts of gold buying old cell phones for a buck from swap meets . it`s right by the antenna .

[@nonovurbiz4726]

@brinbrin62 62200 unless you make your own acids.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

guessing the North and South bridge (the two big chips you hacked off) have silver under them.

[@tharealsteven]

Nicely done Ben, nothing goes to waste I see haha. Quick question, do you know how much steel (pressing steel) goes for per kilo now?. Last I heard, it was going at 5 cents a kilo, i haven't touched steel in ages now haha

[@eWasteBen]

+tharealsteven 4c kg is best price in Melbourne now, some small yards will only take it free

[@tharealsteven]

+eWaste Ben Really?, 4 cents a kilo?, too low that haha. I was speaking to a bloke at a metal recycler place some time last year, he reckons they refuse to accept steel at all. Better off focussing on the high paying metals haha

[@eWasteBen]

+tharealsteven Believe or not but in Tasmania yards are charging up to $67 tonne to drop it off, that comes from a scrapper in tassie on scrapforum.com.au Yeah they all still want the good stuff but it works both ways, just like us scrappers, we take the good with the bad

[@prospectorpete]

how do you sell boards with nothing left on it

[@markjohnson7887]

I get $7.50 a pound for the HD boards. Adds up really quickly.

[@TomlinsTE]

Is there a reason you scraped all the tiny parts into a carpet? It seems like it would be a hassle to pick them out.

[@magnumopus9631]

stops stuff from bouncing too

[@magnumopus9631]

and grips board when he jack hammers it

[@sakupljac6012]

Najbolji ste , pozdrav iz Hrvatske

[@jayq7463]

Some real tweeker stuff right here.

[@bullshitstomper9417]

Hi Ben so after de populating the board would you call it mid grade???!!!! I now get brass from power rails and copper slabs off CPU’s n now I will get boards n brass rods from optic drives and I thank you for that

[@eWasteBen]

at best mid grade, just depends on how much it's depopulated but some buyers won't buy them so you need to work it out with them

[@ryanhouse4269]

What do u do with Ic chips when you take them off

[@annadenaro9919]

Where do you get so many PC from?

[@sparky6189]

where do you sell depopulated boards

[@UBERSTRIKE1]

Thanks for the vid. I enjoyed it. Please invest in some gloves, your hands look like they get cut many times in a day.

[@DrJonHolt]

How do you process (if at all) your GP material?

[@eWasteBen]

+Jonathan Holt (JHunter) I don't yet, that's a couple years away for me

[@maawmaopa6709]

gold are use in internal ic conector, if you want gold, you broke the ic and try to get intermal conector..

[@lvtrance1]

Looks like a brand new pc

[@eWasteBen]

+lvtrance1 not anymore :)

[@blackbird1234100]

when you scrap pcs you should take tin snips and save the windows codes. someone will want em. Especially if it's win 7 and newer

[@ezewaste]

What are windows codes?

[@TEXAS-SMITH]

The "key" on the label that you type in after installing windows usually from a disk so it will be recognized by microsoft as a legit version of windows. Used on all versions except windows 10 which they gave out for "free" so THEY could have control over the computer or laptop YOU bought. This was done to have exclusive legal control over what you do on your device. Every "update" on windows 10 is simply gathering intel from what you have been doing and "Cortana" is not your friend. It is also a spy device. You cannot uninstall Cortana because it is integrated into the windows 10 software. Get rid of Cortana and you have destroyed Windows 10. If I had a windows 7 disk for example, and no "key", you can use any key you can find for any other computer and it will activate my version that you downloaded from my disk.That is why people into computers still keep old windows version "keys". If you don't have a key, you will find after 30 days, your "trial" version of windows will expire and no longer usable until you enter a legit key. I think they are 16 digits and usually on a sticker stuck on the body of the computer. XP keys will not work on anything but XP. Vista cannot be substituted for windows 98. Windows 98 will only work with windows 98 not windows 2000 nor millenium. ETC ETC. Hope this "too much information" helps somebody.

[@henrysullivan189]

Yes these are OEM keys and cant be reused on another PC

[@pump_6669]

@@henrysullivan189 but CAN be used on the same manufacturer comp (i.e. Dell w/ Dell, HP w/ HP, Toshiba w/ Toshiba, etc.)

[@cccpredarmy]

@@TEXAS-SMITH thx man! very informative! Btw there are pirated versions of windows out there which update just fine as original. No idea how they did it but i saw it worked!

[@bfdmod]

When watching this I got an ad for planet gold rush lol

[@braidenlucky4947]

I Really Wan’t To Buy All Of You’re Scrap Hard Drives And Some Heat Sink’s!!!

[@pacoblancosmith]

So you don't really bother with the tiny ones....? I was curious if the metals in the MLCC's are separable from the resistors in your other vids at point of processing. Thanks

[@eWasteBen]

+pacoblancosmith Yeah good question, with the very tiny crumbles it may need to be sent to a pro refiner to process. each metal would be extracted in steps, so they might go for palladium, then go for silver etc. the mlcc's that don;t crush I seperate by hand, even tiny ones are still easy to spot if you have ay a magnifying glass to look.

[@jaredhighlands4604]

How much gold can you get from one pc? On average

[@TheKnasty333]

Hi ben. Where do u sell the boards after depopulation

[@eWasteBen]

if you remove all the good bit's then there's nothing left for a board buyer, a fully depopulated board goes as shred steel, I stuff in empty PC's

[@sargentgamer5774]

I'd love a server case

[@ryanhouse4269]

How do u tell the difference of all the different type of aluminum

[@mohdshatreet]

we have scrap computer, but we dont know where can sell it or who needed and buy it from Jordan

[@spawnvader7103]

How much grams of gold or maybe bricks can you get of gold you get from all the devices that you have and your storage

[@gamecockmike175]

eWaste Ben by the time you scrap the whole thing out and get all the precious metals out, how much are you making off of 1 computer? I just want to know if tearing all that out is worth it or not.

[@sjagain]

No one ever tells you how much they make. With the hours spend I'm sure he has a day job!

[@gamecockmike175]

@@sjagain No but I went to the landfill the other day and I know they had at least 500 or more towers that hadn't been touched yet. I'm like you, I can't it being worth it unless can scrap them down 1 every few minutes but with all that casings and copper and gold, it made me a little curious.