Wonder if there is gold inside CPU?

New CPUs are made using new technology with a less gold than old ones, but still there is gold inside them. To find that gold first you need to take CPU apart and to search for gold plated elements inside CPU housing unit.

How much gold you can find inside CPU?

Here are two examples of gold plated components inside modern CPU. To be honest, these CPUs are not so modern anymore but they are used even in these days. You can find gold in personal computers but not as many as that was case in lately 80’s or early 90’s.

First example shows you gold plated components inside Celeron D processor and second one shows you 755 socket Chip with gold inside. Both of these CPUs are broken and gold is easy to be noticed.

Production process become more precise and gold plating was made more accurate which means that CPU’s from early 2k year contain less gold per unit than it was case in a decade before.

However, if you want you can still find gold to recycle. Not as much as it was case before, but it is worth to try to recycle even these new Celeron, Pentium or AMD chip.

CPU is component which is made of significant amount of gold. Mostly gold is trapped inside CPU housing unit. To collect gold you need to break it part and to look for plated parts. After that it is easy to dissolve gold plated surface and collect pure gold.

Amount of gold depends on which processor we talking about. Some of them have more gold than others but one guideline stays and that is - Older processors have more gold than new ones.

For example - Cyrix Cx486 processor contain about 0.11 grams of gold inside. That means that you can find one gram of pure gold inside 10 CPU units. It is not bad for recycling them. Other example is Cyrix 586 processor which contains 0.25 grams of gold inside single unit. You need only 4 of these processors to make one gram of pure gold. Take a note and do the math. It is quite good to break them apart and to dissolve gold from them.

Today we know that most valuable processors are Pentium PRO with about 1 gram of gold inside and AMD-K5 PR133 which contains 0.5 grams of gold. This applies for single CPU unit.