I hear this BS all the time on both sides, and want a straight answer. I know they are worth nothing unless you got about a thousand of them, but are they really solid gold tiny contact pins.
2006-08-07 13:48:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
That depends. Now-A-Days they are only gold plated for cost reasons, thats why components are now priced cheaper. Back in the day, processors & such were made of 24 carat gold & were expensive. When I was working in a computer store years ago, we collected all the old Pentium I chips & the older 386's & 486's and sent them to a melter, and got back a nice brick of gold that we splitted within' eachother. We collected around a thousand chips at that time. That's not the only thing that has gold on them though mind that, the wiring inside the computer components were made of gold too, not just the pins.
2006-08-07 13:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot of gold plating in a computer. Some people go to a lot of trouble to salvage it from computers in the junkyard, some make a living at it.
2006-08-07 17:22:24 · answer #2 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold plated.
you would add 2000 dollars to the cost of a computer it they were solid gold.
And if you have a couple hundred computers you can melt out the gold.
You need a big furnace to melt the gold and collect it. just a torch will just vaporize allot of the gold
2006-08-07 13:50:39 · answer #3 · answered by DaFinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer Pins
2016-11-06 23:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold plated. Usually 2 to 7 micro-inches thick, in case you were thinking o scraping it off old chips an getting rich.
2006-08-07 13:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are gold-plated. A Singapore firm extract all these gold plated materials and recycle them. The firm now is a listed firm on the SIngapore Exchange.
2006-08-07 13:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by gfmw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worked at Delco Electronics for a while and all the pins there were gold plated.
2006-08-07 13:52:28 · answer #7 · answered by Iron Rider 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are gold plated.
Solid gold would be to soft and expensive.
2006-08-07 13:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are plated. Don't melt them down. If they were solid gold, you would be spending 20 times for same products as you are paying now.
Think about it.
2006-08-07 13:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hate to say this but they are just gold plated;
imagine if they were solid gold, they would cost an absolute fortune
2006-08-07 13:51:38 · answer #10 · answered by paul_heilbron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋