He is selling it for $79.95 on ebay. www.ebay.com/itm/Pentium-Pro-CPU-Gold-Recovery-24k-bead-from-four-CPUs-/262306463876?hash=item3d12af0084:g:dgcAAOSw5IJWgtxI
As a matter of fact, I'm the idiot who bought it. This video has over a million views now, and the gold bead is worth much more than its weight, lol. I can in fact get double what I paid for it, not that I'm selling. It's still going up.
I can totally see the piece of gold selling for more PURELY from it being on a viral video. If I sculpt a dragon it'd be just a common dragon, but if that same dragon on a 20 million view video it would be like a youtube star :D
I love the way people do these type of vidios on utube. It is a lot of work. Its like a mate showing you what he has been up to in his shed. Somebody who has a good grip of what he is doing. Nice one and thanks
Also it can give a person a better understanding of chemistry. I wish these videos existed when I was in school. It's so much more interesting to see how it happened.
I don't even know how I came across this video. However I watched it to its entirety. Suprisingly I was entertained. What an art. The sheer discipline and patience and repetition of it all was memorizing. Wonderful video sir.
Are you sure? He had .3 grams... For 24K (pure, .999+) it's only worth $41.33/gram. Total gold value is $12.40. How many of these did he make? Maybe that's how you got to $55.50...
Hey, Dipstick! You know that Walter W is a fictional television character, right? If the show lasted longer, he could probably fart rainbow-colored lightning bolts and blow 24-karat gold boogers out his nose.
The single most valuable tip that I learned from watching this video... @ 11:40 How to remove filings off your magnet by first covering it with a sheet of plastic.
That wouldn't even be nearly enough to repeat the experiment for yourself. There are many other things to consider to perform the experiment accurately and safely. This is why it should not be taken as a tutorial. The measurements serve as no more than a demo
If he wanted to make a tutorial he should wear a lab coat :P. 5/10 people who haven't worked in a lab before would die while doing this anyways. 2 of them, because they would forget to turn on lamina flow xD
They already are worth more than the value of the gold they contain. I think I paid $18.50 for each. But they only contain 0.3 grams each worth about $12.
Another great video, I started buying gold coins and gold scrap as well as silver and sterling silver years ago, and got my young son into it as well, he’s still, now 26 collecting coins. I’ve always been interested in how the chemicals can be used to separate the different metals out, and I don’t completely understand, but these videos are just amazing and help me fight off the urge to do it myself. I you were my next door neighbor, I’d be the most helpful pain in the but ever lol. Also, Mrs Sreetips but be amazing and highly motivated as well, you two seem to be a great team.
Pentium Classic 75MHz-166MHz P54C chips are the easiest way to ceramic packaging. There are 200MHz non-MMX variants that use the later PMMX organic PGA packaging that was also migrated to the Celerons with 128KB L2 cache based on Deschutes (forget the codename and too lazy to google it). You can find rare all ceramic Pentium w/MMX 166MHz and 200MHz variants, but 166MHz are the most common of the two. You could go for the Cyrix 6x86/AMD K6-x, Motorola 680x0, or DEC Alpha chips if you want to rescue more eccentric parts from scrappers. Maybe the early PPC 601/603 are also on ceramic, but use a flip-chip design so no gold heatspreaders. If you're going to go Pentium Pro, go for the 200MHz 512KB or 1MB L2 variants. A Pentium II Overdrive 333MHz is also an option to max out the Socket 8 platform, but are expensive at $200-400USD per CPU. The 1MB L2 models are easy to spot because of their black packaging material. Happy Hunting!
I won`t use them in working computer configuration. I think about making shelf with glass cover for all CPUs that i have. I don`t know where in Bulgaria I can find electronic waste, and I just can`t afford to spend money for old CPUs. I saw some awesome old tech in FreeGeek in Vancouver from when LTT were there, but I can`t go there :( Someday if I go to Vancouver on holiday I will check FreeGeek for some awesome stuff.
I don't think he's doing this to make money. I think he's doing this simply because he can and he enjoys doing it. Like how some people who are not artists would sometimes draw stuff because thay can and its fun to them. It's called hobby.
...and more money is generated by doing you tube video's - as a permanent income because the videos continue to be watched with more subscribers. THIS IS THE WAY TO MAKE THE MONEY, not the small amount of gold. Few people could be bothered to go through and demonstrate this experiment, its too long and toxic. I mean just look at those plumes of green chlorine gas ! Its a miniature chemical weapons facility called a lab.
wow... honestly this is a performance that includes patience, hard work, and a hell of a lot of dedication. it was great to see you do this from start to finish...good job.
I watched the whole video, it was a painful workout for my patience! But I really like, respect and appreciate what you went through to produce this awesome demonstration! And when I said painful, it in no way implied any negative intent for your excellent video quality, just my ADHD.
I don't think he's doing this to make money. I think he's doing this simply because he can and he enjoys doing it. Like how some people who are not artists would sometimes draw stuff because thay can and its fun to them. It's called hobby.
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Google "sell CPU scrap". There are companies who do this profesionally and will buy old CPUs and circuit boards. They usually pay by the pound and different items are worth more (based on gold content). But you really do need a lot, not just one or two. You really want Pentium Pro or earlier (286,386,etc).
I cannot believe I just sat through a video on the slowest gold recovery on the planet...I could have driven to Alaska and panned some faster...haha....labor intensive...
that's what looks like hours of work for 25-50 dollars worth of gold good lord, lol you'd have to do this on such an absurd scale for it to be worth your time and resource cost
Not when Gas is $7 gal a sixpack of coke is $12 a beef $14 lb forget seeing bacon. You hunt forage for your food or grow a garden for 4 mos. there are few roads so you have to make your own so you need a dozer, and the only entertainment is what ever vid games / movies you have. cell service is extremely limited
The amount of chemicals used in this video exceed the price of 1.5 grams of gold. (Excluding the amount required to purchase the CPU's) So in essence it costs him money to collect the gold from the CPU.
I'm glad I read both your posts, I know nothing of the process, while watching it I determined that it was a waste of time and money. Even if he gets them for free, which I do.
I buy those at yardsales for a few bucks. They are very tough and work well. My wife would not be happy if I took here's to use for my refining projects.
Fantastic experiment, I'm sorry it was much ado about nothing. However, I'm always fascinated watching you work. Your knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry is astounding.
Actually if you use the same solution over and over again I heard that the same solution can hold 300g of metal in it, so if you just kept reusing the acid-bleach maybe add a little more bleach each time, the cost of materials goes down to practically nothing.
I was checking out info about the upcoming intel 8th Generation CPUs and somehow i landed here.Such a great video! Thanks alot sreetips! Totally Impressed!
I was kidding..lol...Man How do you know this stuff ??It is so complicated to do...and how does the gold just float in water???..I thought it would settle much faster...Your IQ must be through the roof !...Matt.
Massachusetts Matt. hey uhm. is it posible to just scrape off the gold when the gold is easy to scrape off of the ceramic?? and take out the plastic chunk out as you scrape the cold off.. after the bottom part is cleaned of course because cpu has both side with gold
daimon hellstrom yeah same here makes me want to start learning more of chemistry.. But my point was if its posible to slide off the (foil) state of the gold off of the plastic and get rid of most plastic but i dont know if that would be a good idea
I am not sure speed wise and cost wise if this is worth it, I watched a few techniques to extract gold from chips, and everyone has their own methods! And they all use some form of Acid and fume hood, just not everyone is so extensive on testing gold in the solution at every step! But I do have to give you marks For your take on this attempt! I myself have lots of items with gold on it and just browsing the best ways! :)
-At the beginning of the video he states. "My only concern is with making this video that demonstrates how it can be done with NO NITRIC ACID". Cause acids are bad.
I like your series of videos and with a background in chemistry I understand (mostly) what you're doing. Here in Australia anyone would struggle to purchase even simple glassware. When I worked for a lab supply company, the police stringently monitored all sales and purchasers had to sign end user licence agreements (EULA's) stating that the equipment would not be used for clandestine drug manufacture.
@@Unojoservir thought they were yeilding a 1/3 of a gram of gold each, and he's not even really recovering any of the bonding wires, because he's not pulverizing the ceramic. So, more like 60 to yield an ounce, maybe 50 per ounce using proper tech like Successful Engineer
I know what you mean! I never took Chemistry so it's all Greek to me. I know of a salvage yard that sends circuit boards through a shredder and heat it up in a gas furnace where all of board is consumed. They use different anodes in a process like the reverse of electroplating. I guess that it's not so time consuming, but likely has a similar amount of toxic products.
I part of me died when he hit the first P6 chip that led the frequency revolution of the 1990s and became the foundation for the current Core architecture with a hammer. I would have kept the CPUs, they'll be valuable in the future as collector items.
Haters want to hate, underground Science lovers relate. This is awesome, I've already watched three videos. Can not wait to view more. Thanks for taking the time to break it down.
No, the whole thing is actually very smart. Obviously not for making money, but for processing materials and reclaiming resources used in other things it's genius. You never know when these processes will be needed for something. Medicine would be impossible without this kind of knowledge.
Todd Pattison China has started going bonkers with environmental regulation in the last few weeks. Raw material prices there have gone up a shit load as a result particularly in the electronics industries but even for cardboard making. Don't know why it's started happening but it has.
China has been raising export prices for all goods since late 2000's with massive currency manipulation since 2010. Environmental regulations are not particularly real in china, yes they exist, but just another hurdle to jump through and generally just a small fee, if any. . I recently had a 2000 kilowatt incinerator installed in guangzhou and didn't even require a permit. China wants to appear environmentally conscious but it wants more than anything to preserve manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing = terrible for the environment, china chooses manufacturing over protecting the environment 10 times out of 10.
sreetips I have a somewhat HUGE collection of gold fingers, edge connectors gold SIM cards and a couple zip lock bags full of this stuff. And as ignorant as I was I thought I could do this science experiment to extract the gold BUT I RATHER NOT KILL MYSELF WITH THE FUMES ! So I rather collect it and sell it as is and let someone with experience do that . But I'm not good with finding anyone that would be interested in buying my scrap gold ! can ANY ONE HELP ME ! I can assure you I have more then just grams if this stuff . I used to work in a factory and I would take all the gold that I could from the old computers that were being thrown out in order to make room for the more newer updated ones ... something told me to save the gold fingers and gold connectors and sim cards and old phones and cpu`s . Well basically I have ALLOT and I want to sell it ! CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH TAKING IT OFF MY HANDS .? THANKS
Thanks for sharing an interesting video, and particularly for pointing out key points to some of the audience (not a money-making approach, dangerous, ...). I'm puzzled by the downthumbs and negative comments, most of which seem to gripe about things you've already acknowledged... Sorry - can't stop the cretins.
People like you amaze me. Are you straight up dumb, or you just got no imagination? First of all, what do you think happened if you started this on factory scale? Second; you never know when information you have is going to come in handy. - Thirly some people just find it interesting even though they know they will probably never have any use of this information, but still entertaining.
Your gonna need all that gold and more to pay that power bill. Omg the hood is awesome, everything is awesome yet it takes allot of time, knowledge and patience to do this. After understanding the how is one thing but to watch it is different! Thank you! Great channel. Your the sharpest knife in the drawer! For me I feel that time is the most precious commodity and I would never be able to do what you do! I'm jealous but thank you.
well most hobbys are a "drain of money" but still people do hobbys so there must be something more important in theses things than money and materials i wonder what that would be....
for just doing something he obviously knows how to do I assume he enjoys doing it,and he's making money to do it..hmm kind of like a job wouldn't you say?
But now that it's demonstrated to be possible to extract gold in a new way (using household bleach!) further efforts may prove economically feasible; some of you guys are scientific jerks.
I found your video very interesting. Not exactly what I was expecting but I really enjoyed it all the same. Thank you. I'll be watching for more of your videos looking forward to seeing them
True, they're old and VERY outdated. but they're highly sought after by retro computer enthusiasts and are very valuable due to their scarcity. Here in Britain they set you back £50 (somewhere round $60) per chip. If you have a mainboard and 32MB of RAM with it then the entire thing as a bundle would be worth 2-3x that.
Most of the things these goldbug computer scrapper retards scrap are worth 10-100x on eBay than the gold that is inside them. A computer from the 70s-90s may have $0.25 of gold in them but are worth $50-200. As a retro-computer enthusiast this really pisses me off.
dude, i have a chemistry degree, and i doubt ,very seriously , that i could have done a multi-step chemical process any better. that is incredible that you were able to extract exactly 1.5 grams of Au, from the CPU's. Bravo
The equipment is re-useable, kind of like working on your car. The time, beats sitting on your ass getting fat. Exercise your mind , your body will follow!! Maybe pick up a little extra cash, and have "your" kind of fun doing it.
If you used aqua regia to ionize the metals, then use electrolysis to attract the different metals to different electrodes. Each metal ion will plate a certain electrode. then reverse the polarity to make it precipitate out in distilled water. This most likely wouldn't work because the electrodes would become part of the reaction unless they were non reactive material. I have a degree in chemistry but have not worked in it for 50 years. You have stirred my interest back. At one time, I had a lab in my garage with a vent-a-hood and the whole 9 yards. I am 76 years old and need to get my chemistry books out and refresh my memory.
Jack, my chemistry knowledge is very limited. But I am very familiar with the reactivity series of metals from the periodic table. Knowledge of this series is an absolute must for anyone who is interested in refining precious metals. It can be magic, or a curse, if the refiner does not know what's going on inside his reaction vessel! I rely heavily on my common sense approach and my 8 years of refining experience to be able to pull the metals from these various types of scrap. And I hope others can gain some insight into the mysterious world of refining precious metals by viewing my videos. Thank you!
How do you dispose of or neutralize the chemicals? Are all the metals and chemicals inert upon disposal or maybe you use a service to dispose or have a massive bunker of plastic barrels containing crazy shit?
I put gold refining waste into my stock pot. There, trace amounts of precious metals "cement" out as a fine black powder on to pieces of copper (please see my stock pot videos) as the copper goes into solution. Then, the resulting acidic copper solution is transferred to my waste treatment bucket that's full of iron. Here, the copper "cements" out as harmless metallic copper powder and the iron goes into solution. The copper powder is disposed of. The acidic iron solution is siphoned off into a third bucket where it is treated with sodium hydroxide. The iron precipitates out as a metal hydroxide. These hydroxides are filtered out and dried, then disposed of. The caustic solution (filtrate) is then neutralized to pH7 with swimming pool pH down, and disposed. Nothing toxic is ever poured down the drain or in the dirt.
Awesome. I worked for a pharma research and development company and set up a pilot plant with them. I was new to the field and couldn't believe what we were dumping without treatment. I can say that the pipes leading to the main sewer line must have been very clean. I had a basic idea of what you were doing with it from your video, but a lot of that stuff is beyond my realm of knowledge so I was curious if you just kept the buckets or not. Thanks. Apparently a lot of people are interested in this stuff as you have a ton of views and comments from this one video.
Actually the correct title would be "The one weird trick to gold recovery" or "Banned video!! Gold recovery trick the government doesn't want you to know!!!"
I couldn't tell you the difference between a valance electron and a photon or a neutron. I just never studied it. Besides, to refine gold and silver you don't need much knowledge of chemistry, maybe become very familiar with the "reactivity series of metals" it is used in nearly ever phase of refining all the way down to waste treatment.
I just watched a 27min video about something that i dont understand, yet it relaxed me!
Airborne
same here
me too
I just wanted to seebthe gold
ha ha ... it had the same effect on me. he's a genius.
I have never been interested in chemistry, but I've watched entire video.
Jan Filip Gold Fever
The gold didnt bring too much money for the work but the 3.2 million views did.
Lol 😂
4.2 million now lol
If thrre were only ads...
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$50 worth of gold in only 50 simple steps!!!
He is selling it for $79.95 on ebay.
www.ebay.com/itm/Pentium-Pro-CPU-Gold-Recovery-24k-bead-from-four-CPUs-/262306463876?hash=item3d12af0084:g:dgcAAOSw5IJWgtxI
That's a different one. Same idea, but uses aqua regia which contains nitric acid.
As a matter of fact, I'm the idiot who bought it.
This video has over a million views now, and the gold bead is worth much more than its weight, lol. I can in fact get double what I paid for it, not that I'm selling. It's still going up.
Poor grammar. NOW who is the idiot?
I can totally see the piece of gold selling for more PURELY from it being on a viral video. If I sculpt a dragon it'd be just a common dragon, but if that same dragon on a 20 million view video it would be like a youtube star :D
I love the way people do these type of vidios on utube. It is a lot of work. Its like a mate showing you what he has been up to in his shed. Somebody who has a good grip of what he is doing. Nice one and thanks
Also it can give a person a better understanding of chemistry. I wish these videos existed when I was in school. It's so much more interesting to see how it happened.
John Boardman i don't want to know what my mates have been up to in their sheds. that's for damn sure
I don't even know how I came across this video. However I watched it to its entirety. Suprisingly I was entertained. What an art. The sheer discipline and patience and repetition of it all was memorizing. Wonderful video sir.
If you are curious to know how much it's worth. Current gold price at time of posting is : 1152$. 1.5g is 0.0482 Troy ounces. 1152 x 0.0482 = 55.50$.
it's a hobby
Are you sure? He had .3 grams... For 24K (pure, .999+) it's only worth $41.33/gram. Total gold value is $12.40. How many of these did he make? Maybe that's how you got to $55.50...
wait what? its 1.5 grams you answered your own question
are you dumb he said they give 0.3 grams per chip, altogether he had 1.5 grams did you even watch the video?
thats what he said in the beginning u moron
looks like you also stumbled onto the recipe for mountain dew. congrats
xD xD xD xD xD
Obi Wan Cannabi. Cool, thanks.
Obi Wan Cannabi ytjeyin
toxic hell was out of baja last night so i got regular dew...4:30am im still regreting this decision
Obi Wan Cannabi is that your grand father called Mr cannabis?
Learning how the chemistry works was well worth the time. Bravo, my man!
All I can think of is Breaking Bad.
Breaking CPUs
I'm thinking BEAKER...loooong...but he is frikin good. That's a very pure extraction. Best ever!
No no, Walter White knows what he is doing
Hey, Dipstick! You know that Walter W is a fictional television character, right? If the show lasted longer, he could probably fart rainbow-colored lightning bolts and blow 24-karat gold boogers out his nose.
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I don't know how I got here.. and I have no idea of chemistry... but I watched the whole video.. ;)
MilMike same
Same here, haha
mee too lol
You're not alone bruh
Me Freaking Too!!!
The single most valuable tip that I learned from watching this video...
@ 11:40 How to remove filings off your magnet by first covering it with a sheet of plastic.
"This is not intended as a tutorial."
Gives us exact measurements of stuff to use.
That wouldn't even be nearly enough to repeat the experiment for yourself. There are many other things to consider to perform the experiment accurately and safely. This is why it should not be taken as a tutorial. The measurements serve as no more than a demo
If he wanted to make a tutorial he should wear a lab coat :P. 5/10 people who haven't worked in a lab before would die while doing this anyways. 2 of them, because they would forget to turn on lamina flow xD
Adding H2O2 to the HCl would remind you to turn it on before adding the thiocyanate
I think he had to say its not a tutorial so nobody could sue if they got hurt while following it.
THOSE PENTIUM PROS ARE RARE YOU KNOW,
He just smashed several of those and those cpus will be worth more that its gold value soon :(
They already are worth more than the value of the gold they contain. I think I paid $18.50 for each. But they only contain 0.3 grams each worth about $12.
sreetips well i just wanted you to know, cuz i need one for my collection
Send me your address and I'll send one to you. Private message please.
sreetips thank you so much!
sreetips message sent, 1h
Another great video, I started buying gold coins and gold scrap as well as silver and sterling silver years ago, and got my young son into it as well, he’s still, now 26 collecting coins. I’ve always been interested in how the chemicals can be used to separate the different metals out, and I don’t completely understand, but these videos are just amazing and help me fight off the urge to do it myself. I you were my next door neighbor, I’d be the most helpful pain in the but ever lol. Also, Mrs Sreetips but be amazing and highly motivated as well, you two seem to be a great team.
Interesting hobby. I can see your dedication. This was a lot of work. Great video.
ZenoDiac hobby and career
yeah, but with all the time and products, etc i win more money "working"
Well this isn't his job. He also earns money from RUclips (looking at that view bar) and selling the gold on Ebay. I wouldnt be so sure if i were you.
Robot A.I. of the future are going to watch this and be super pissed about what you did to their ancestors.
Code them to recycle themselves to make you money 😈
Especially the T 1000.
Patience, intelligence and a steady hand. I enjoyed your demonstration.
I feel how my heart is breaking when he is smashing these Pentium PRO's with the hammer 😟
As a computer enthusiast, it's truly sickening to watch
i feel with you
Same here bro... I would love to have some old ceramic CPU or even Pentium Pro. The oldest CPU i have is Pentium II
Pentium Classic 75MHz-166MHz P54C chips are the easiest way to ceramic packaging. There are 200MHz non-MMX variants that use the later PMMX organic PGA packaging that was also migrated to the Celerons with 128KB L2 cache based on Deschutes (forget the codename and too lazy to google it). You can find rare all ceramic Pentium w/MMX 166MHz and 200MHz variants, but 166MHz are the most common of the two. You could go for the Cyrix 6x86/AMD K6-x, Motorola 680x0, or DEC Alpha chips if you want to rescue more eccentric parts from scrappers. Maybe the early PPC 601/603 are also on ceramic, but use a flip-chip design so no gold heatspreaders. If you're going to go Pentium Pro, go for the 200MHz 512KB or 1MB L2 variants. A Pentium II Overdrive 333MHz is also an option to max out the Socket 8 platform, but are expensive at $200-400USD per CPU. The 1MB L2 models are easy to spot because of their black packaging material. Happy Hunting!
I won`t use them in working computer configuration. I think about making shelf with glass cover for all CPUs that i have. I don`t know where in Bulgaria I can find electronic waste, and I just can`t afford to spend money for old CPUs. I saw some awesome old tech in FreeGeek in Vancouver from when LTT were there, but I can`t go there :( Someday if I go to Vancouver on holiday I will check FreeGeek for some awesome stuff.
I'd hate to see the headline "Dozens Killed After Misunderstanding Warnings on Get Rich Quick Video"
The chemicals involved in this are no joke... This is not something I would try at home.
Warnings are posted repeatedly about the dangers so if it did happen it there is no way he would get in trouble.
Absolutely lethal...
lol
Chris with the win! Lol
Love this dude , explaining all in a logic manner . Thank you !
I don't think he's doing this to make money. I think he's doing this simply because he can and he enjoys doing it. Like how some people who are not artists would sometimes draw stuff because thay can and its fun to them. It's called hobby.
Well said, thank you!
Like George W. Bush...for example.
...and more money is generated by doing you tube video's - as a permanent income because the videos continue to be watched with more subscribers.
THIS IS THE WAY TO MAKE THE MONEY, not the small amount of gold.
Few people could be bothered to go through and demonstrate this experiment, its too long and toxic.
I mean just look at those plumes of green chlorine gas ! Its a miniature chemical weapons facility called a lab.
The money comes from RUclips views
i know that, im gamer and now im get job on development game, sometime i say for my self "this is a job?"
wow... honestly this is a performance that includes patience, hard work, and a hell of a lot of dedication. it was great to see you do this from start to finish...good job.
Thanks Lucas
I watched the whole video, it was a painful workout for my patience! But I really like, respect and appreciate what you went through to produce this awesome demonstration! And when I said painful, it in no way implied any negative intent for your excellent video quality, just my ADHD.
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from the gold you have made 60 dollar but from the video you have made almost 2k... bravo that called business
I don't think he's doing this to make money. I think he's doing this
simply because he can and he enjoys doing it. Like how some people who
are not artists would sometimes draw stuff because thay can and its fun
to them. It's called hobby.
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its so sad seeing these get used for scrap, i paid $80 for 4 of them to collect and use them for vintage pc builds
I got a box full of old processors ..where can I sell them ?
Mail them to me.....
Google "sell CPU scrap". There are companies who do this profesionally and will buy old CPUs and circuit boards. They usually pay by the pound and different items are worth more (based on gold content). But you really do need a lot, not just one or two. You really want Pentium Pro or earlier (286,386,etc).
Akash Mishra
how many kids you want?
Regardless of the cost, I did very much enjoy watching the entire video, what a lovely hobby to have
I cannot believe I just sat through a video on the slowest gold recovery on the planet...I could have driven to Alaska and panned some faster...haha....labor intensive...
that's what looks like hours of work for 25-50 dollars worth of gold
good lord, lol
you'd have to do this on such an absurd scale for it to be worth your time and resource cost
Ronan * with all the youtube money i think it's well worth it .
lol
There's more gold in recycled electronics by weight than there is in gold ore.
Possibly, but it's a lot harder to get out.
Wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper to just go to Alaska and dig up whatever gold is left there?
Not when Gas is $7 gal a sixpack of coke is $12 a beef $14 lb forget seeing bacon. You hunt forage for your food or grow a garden for 4 mos. there are few roads so you have to make your own so you need a dozer, and the only entertainment is what ever vid games / movies you have. cell service is extremely limited
+dadrules714 seven a gal? Where you live at
+The Acuate well still that's high
+The Acuate also y u so salty
Kojak0 not everyone lives near to alaska
I did this, it took me many hours to get everything together. But it does work pure Gold.
Nice.
18 bucks for low quality all the way up to 50 bucks for 18k to 24k for that gold. now how much did all your chemicals cost?
The amount of chemicals used in this video exceed the price of 1.5 grams of gold. (Excluding the amount required to purchase the CPU's) So in essence it costs him money to collect the gold from the CPU.
I'm glad I read both your posts, I know nothing of the process, while watching it I determined that it was a waste of time and money. Even if he gets them for free, which I do.
Aaro August Please send me all your free CPUs I'll refund the postage.
Neat, that was fun to watch. I kept waiting for a voice to yell in the background, "honey, have you seen my mother's casserole dish?" @9:12
I buy those at yardsales for a few bucks. They are very tough and work well. My wife would not be happy if I took here's to use for my refining projects.
This is the best comment!!
Fantastic experiment, I'm sorry it was much ado about nothing. However, I'm always fascinated watching you work. Your knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry is astounding.
Actually if you use the same solution over and over again I heard that the same solution can hold 300g of metal in it, so if you just kept reusing the acid-bleach maybe add a little more bleach each time, the cost of materials goes down to practically nothing.
chemistry is nuts. that's the smartest thing i can think of right now.
3h30 pm, i just closed down my restaurant forever and starting my business tonight!
You're smart.
At $50-60 per chip, you're going to be at a net loss, minimum of -$125 every time when you include the cost of chemicals and equipment.
I was checking out info about the upcoming intel 8th Generation CPUs and somehow i landed here.Such a great video! Thanks alot sreetips! Totally Impressed!
Thank you!
I predict you got an A+ in chemistry
You lost me at "distilled water".
I was kidding..lol...Man How do you know this stuff ??It is so complicated to do...and how does the gold just float in water???..I thought it would settle much faster...Your IQ must be through the roof !...Matt.
Massachusetts Matt. hey uhm. is it posible to just scrape off the gold when the gold is easy to scrape off of the ceramic?? and take out the plastic chunk out as you scrape the cold off.. after the bottom part is cleaned of course because cpu has both side with gold
daimon hellstrom yeah same here makes me want to start learning more of chemistry..
But my point was if its posible to slide off the (foil) state of the gold off of the plastic and get rid of most plastic but i dont know if that would be a good idea
daimon hellstrom ohh ok cool thanks for the info ^-^ and merry christmas cheers
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Comment-GOLD...
Another inspiring Sreetips video! Serious thoughts about finally learning some practical chemistry. Thanks again.
Wow you did a ton of work holy moly!
I am not sure speed wise and cost wise if this is worth it, I watched a few techniques to extract gold from chips, and everyone has their own methods! And they all use some form of Acid and fume hood, just not everyone is so extensive on testing gold in the solution at every step! But I do have to give you marks For your take on this attempt! I myself have lots of items with gold on it and just browsing the best ways! :)
-At the beginning of the video he states. "My only concern is with
making this video that demonstrates how it can be done with NO NITRIC
ACID". Cause acids are bad.
Life Happened #reading
Well, he did use two other acids, so it wasn't because "acids are bad", it's just an alternative way of doing it without the nitric acid.
Is nitric worse than hydrochloric?
i think you taught people more about making deadly gases than recovering gold ;) lol
WW2 Truth 4chan
WW2 Truth lollolol
Or actually could have prevented someone from unexpectedly poisoning themselves.
I like your series of videos and with a background in chemistry I understand (mostly) what you're doing. Here in Australia anyone would struggle to purchase even simple glassware. When I worked for a lab supply company, the police stringently monitored all sales and purchasers had to sign end user licence agreements (EULA's) stating that the equipment would not be used for clandestine drug manufacture.
The few who would use it for illegal activity ruin it for those who have a legitimate purpose.
Lol, and then China just runs ships full of drugs over there and the paid-off politicians look the other way.
This is Rocket science
I've had 1000's of these CPUs in my lifetime. Man I wish RUclips was around in 1990 or someone taught this in science class
DesertMarineZ it would have taken 1,120 of these cpus to make 1oz of gold.
@@Unojoservir yeah and? The guy said he had 1000s of these in his lifetime, you calling him a liar?
@@Unojoservir not so ,
@@Unojoservir thought they were yeilding a 1/3 of a gram of gold each, and he's not even really recovering any of the bonding wires, because he's not pulverizing the ceramic. So, more like 60 to yield an ounce, maybe 50 per ounce using proper tech like Successful Engineer
Fascinating to watch and I always enjoy seeing the refined gold. 👍
I dont know what the hell I am watching but its cool to see!
MunchNPlay #restinpices
I know what you mean! I never took Chemistry so it's all Greek to me. I know of a salvage yard that sends circuit boards through a shredder and heat it up in a gas furnace where all of board is consumed. They use different anodes in a process like the reverse of electroplating. I guess that it's not so time consuming, but likely has a similar amount of toxic products.
We cant see the face on the video, but somehow i think Walter White is behind this...
had same feeling XD
Why Is my name thrown into the mix? Lol
Just finished the video had no idea you could use a blow torch. I did not think it got it to the proper temperature. Learn something new every day
I part of me died when he hit the first P6 chip that led the frequency revolution of the 1990s and became the foundation for the current Core architecture with a hammer. I would have kept the CPUs, they'll be valuable in the future as collector items.
exactly, these cpus cost more than the gold they have and wait some more years and each one will probably be more than 100 bucks
Wow' you have a lot more patience than I do. Nice job.
Are you a doctor?
Spelling corrected. None the less, no one likes a grammar Nazi Velexia!
Ccm Casey
Maybe I am the Spelling KGB.
ah same thing' just a lot more likely to have a dashboard camera in your car!
Haters want to hate, underground Science lovers relate. This is awesome, I've already watched three videos. Can not wait to view more. Thanks for taking the time to break it down.
Dude knows his shit...
And his gas
if those CPU works they're now worth more as a collectors item then the gold price.
grapsorz theyre 30$ on ebay
even if you find them that cheap. you lose money after the chemicals and time is deducted. you get 0.5g normally MAX 1g and 1g is like 36$ right?
Yep.
they're not valuable, fortunately. so you can build old pcs for cheap still
GraveUypo I would do like that one ncis where the guy had a old computer frame but with new tech inside it
He said right up front it wasn't worth the effort - he was proving a point - point taken.That gold is staying right where it is.
First class chemistry!
verry nice but way too much work... 😭😕
No, the whole thing is actually very smart. Obviously not for making money, but for processing materials and reclaiming resources used in other things it's genius. You never know when these processes will be needed for something. Medicine would be impossible without this kind of knowledge.
If you had a way to do a large batch of them, and access to the reagents/chemicals why not?
cvamurfreesboro lol
THANK YOU for not ruining the video with background music.
Modern Day Gold Prospector.
Id love to see you do this on a big scale, even like 1000 CPUs would be interesting.
so 300 ounces of gold.
Chris Crissey 300 grams i believe it'd be. Can't remember the exact amount he used in this now.
Todd Pattison China has started going bonkers with environmental regulation in the last few weeks. Raw material prices there have gone up a shit load as a result particularly in the electronics industries but even for cardboard making. Don't know why it's started happening but it has.
China has been raising export prices for all goods since late 2000's with massive currency manipulation since 2010. Environmental regulations are not particularly real in china, yes they exist, but just another hurdle to jump through and generally just a small fee, if any. . I recently had a 2000 kilowatt incinerator installed in guangzhou and didn't even require a permit. China wants to appear environmentally conscious but it wants more than anything to preserve manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing = terrible for the environment, china chooses manufacturing over protecting the environment 10 times out of 10.
Wow! Amazing to see chemistry at work. Surprising how involved the process is. Thanks for sharing.
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The pentium pro chip is worth more than the gold content in it!
Yes, there's only about $12 or $13 worth of pure gold in each one. And I paid $185 for the lot of 10 CPUs that I bought, shipping included.
But.....if you get them for free from people with junk computers!
There is also a lot of gold on circuit board edge connectors and possibly other connectors on the end of cables.
sreetips I have a somewhat HUGE collection of gold fingers, edge connectors gold SIM cards and a couple zip lock bags full of this stuff. And as ignorant as I was I thought I could do this science experiment to extract the gold BUT I RATHER NOT KILL MYSELF WITH THE FUMES ! So I rather collect it and sell it as is and let someone with experience do that . But I'm not good with finding anyone that would be interested in buying my scrap gold ! can ANY ONE HELP ME ! I can assure you I have more then just grams if this stuff . I used to work in a factory and I would take all the gold that I could from the old computers that were being thrown out in order to make room for the more newer updated ones ... something told me to save the gold fingers and gold connectors and sim cards and old phones and cpu`s . Well basically I have ALLOT and I want to sell it ! CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH TAKING IT OFF MY HANDS .? THANKS
Talk to eWaste Ben.
Check this out ruclips.net/video/b0peqBVV1VA/видео.html
What do you do to safely dispose of the large amount of chemical waste you have produced?
Probably chuck it behind the fence of his house...
Every drop gets treated before disposal. Nothing is ever poured down the drain or on the ground.
Woodrow Monte
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Thanks for sharing an interesting video, and particularly for pointing out key points to some of the audience (not a money-making approach, dangerous, ...). I'm puzzled by the downthumbs and negative comments, most of which seem to gripe about things you've already acknowledged... Sorry - can't stop the cretins.
Shoulda added the "Ta DA" low res sound effect at the end of the video when you pull out the gold bead.
The fifty dollars of gold extracted just doesn't seem worth wild for all the work.
Some enjoy that work, some wont. I agree but its also an investment of time giving real results which is nice for those who know chemistry I guess
William Dean Yes i agree
William Dean it probably cost him more for the chemicals, beakers, tools etc... Lol
Love your technique. Knew you were gonna get close to your expected yield post-refining but to think that it was spot on 1.5g is amazing.
a lot of work for so little gold..
but 1.3 million monetized views on RUclips isn't quite so insignificant!
Imagine you go on "Pc JunkYard" and put 50 not 5 pieces...Lol,go watch Unicorn clips.
People like you amaze me. Are you straight up dumb, or you just got no imagination? First of all, what do you think happened if you started this on factory scale? Second; you never know when information you have is going to come in handy. - Thirly some people just find it interesting even though they know they will probably never have any use of this information, but still entertaining.
Nazrahnas w
On a factory scale, you would just lose money faster... to do this ONLY for the gold is a losing proposition unless the price of gold increases 10x...
wow that looks dangerous!!
your absolutly right when you said "its alot of work for a small yeild".well done
Money gain from the Gold: $200
Cost to operate such process : $400
.... DaeYum...lol
When you don't own a High Tech Lab
lol
Thank you for a well produced and subtitled video of "whats possible" , you did exactly what you set out to do
I think I'll stick to metal detecting xD
I think I'll stick to whoring.
RandomSora seems more profitable to prospect
more effective method, granulate / grind then use electromigration / electroplating
for electroplating you need to dissolve the gold first
Your gonna need all that gold and more to pay that power bill. Omg the hood is awesome, everything is awesome yet it takes allot of time, knowledge and patience to do this. After understanding the how is one thing but to watch it is different! Thank you! Great channel. Your the sharpest knife in the drawer! For me I feel that time is the most precious commodity and I would never be able to do what you do! I'm jealous but thank you.
Is the cost of the operation greater than or lesser than the value of the extracted gold?
1:03
lordchickenhawk oh, thanks. I jumped that part.
it's called a hobby
well most hobbys are a "drain of money" but still people do hobbys so there must be something more important in theses things than money and materials i wonder what that would be....
Jin Kazama All you need to do is look at home much time was spent. if he got 50 bucks in gold and spent 80+ hours, what do you think?
Children in Africa could have eaten those CPUs!
This video was awesome. You have some true skills.
hardly seems worth the effort given the time & materials.
thats what he said at the start dip shit....
for just doing something he obviously knows how to do I assume he enjoys doing it,and he's making money to do it..hmm kind of like a job wouldn't you say?
He explicitly states that the cost of production out-weighs the value of harvested gold. The only money he's making is RUclips/advertisement revenue.
REDUNDANCY : See above comments.
But now that it's demonstrated to be possible to extract gold in a new way (using household bleach!) further efforts may prove economically feasible; some of you guys are scientific jerks.
I think the YIELD is overcooking the amount ;)
I found your video very interesting. Not exactly what I was expecting but I really enjoyed it all the same. Thank you. I'll be watching for more of your videos looking forward to seeing them
they didnt teach this shit in ap chemistry
what are ppl saying here? 1.5 grams of gold is worth ($41.96 x 15) = $629.40 Oz dollars as of 2nd Dec 2017
It is $41.96 X 1.5 = $62.94 you forgot to place the decimal point.
sreetips how did I screw that up? Was it wishful thinking? :)
Oz dollars lol
This comment is unintentionally hilarious! XD
sreetips well at leas5 he could pay for all the chemicals he used 😆
Amazing its just soothing to pour the waste into the drain or better yet a drinking water ressavoir
Pentium Pros are actually kind of rare and valuable :( A shame you wrecked them.
True, they're old and VERY outdated. but they're highly sought after by retro computer enthusiasts and are very valuable due to their scarcity. Here in Britain they set you back £50 (somewhere round $60) per chip. If you have a mainboard and 32MB of RAM with it then the entire thing as a bundle would be worth 2-3x that.
Most of the things these goldbug computer scrapper retards scrap are worth 10-100x on eBay than the gold that is inside them. A computer from the 70s-90s may have $0.25 of gold in them but are worth $50-200. As a retro-computer enthusiast this really pisses me off.
Seriously? There are computers with old shit like that in them for like $5 at my local secondhand store.
You would be surprised, even later Pentium machines are starting to pick up value.
Brightest Darkest they clearly don't have a clue what they have then!!
Does this method also work with goldpins and ram fingers?
I have not used it with pins or fingers.
MrHollabk
Do you know cody's lab ?
dude, i have a chemistry degree, and i doubt ,very seriously , that i could have done a multi-step chemical process any better. that is incredible that you were able to extract exactly 1.5 grams of Au, from the CPU's. Bravo
Timothy, I've done these CPUs several times, using different chemicals each time, and I get 0.3 grams of pure gold per CPU, every time. Thank you!
The equipment is re-useable, kind of like working on your car. The time, beats sitting on your ass getting fat. Exercise your mind , your body will follow!! Maybe pick up a little extra cash, and have "your" kind of fun doing it.
Here, here, well said! And thank you.
No...Thank You! Keep Safe...
All that work for a little gold bb....
If you used aqua regia to ionize the metals, then use electrolysis to attract the different metals to different electrodes. Each metal ion will plate a certain electrode. then reverse the polarity to make it precipitate out in distilled water. This most likely wouldn't work because the electrodes would become part of the reaction unless they were non reactive material.
I have a degree in chemistry but have not worked in it for 50 years. You have stirred my interest back. At one time, I had a lab in my garage with a vent-a-hood and the whole 9 yards. I am 76 years old and need to get my chemistry books out and refresh my memory.
Jack, my chemistry knowledge is very limited. But I am very familiar with the reactivity series of metals from the periodic table. Knowledge of this series is an absolute must for anyone who is interested in refining precious metals. It can be magic, or a curse, if the refiner does not know what's going on inside his reaction vessel! I rely heavily on my common sense approach and my 8 years of refining experience to be able to pull the metals from these various types of scrap. And I hope others can gain some insight into the mysterious world of refining precious metals by viewing my videos. Thank you!
How do you dispose of or neutralize the chemicals? Are all the metals and chemicals inert upon disposal or maybe you use a service to dispose or have a massive bunker of plastic barrels containing crazy shit?
I put gold refining waste into my stock pot. There, trace amounts of precious metals "cement" out as a fine black powder on to pieces of copper (please see my stock pot videos) as the copper goes into solution. Then, the resulting acidic copper solution is transferred to my waste treatment bucket that's full of iron. Here, the copper "cements" out as harmless metallic copper powder and the iron goes into solution. The copper powder is disposed of. The acidic iron solution is siphoned off into a third bucket where it is treated with sodium hydroxide. The iron precipitates out as a metal hydroxide. These hydroxides are filtered out and dried, then disposed of. The caustic solution (filtrate) is then neutralized to pH7 with swimming pool pH down, and disposed. Nothing toxic is ever poured down the drain or in the dirt.
Awesome. I worked for a pharma research and development company and set up a pilot plant with them. I was new to the field and couldn't believe what we were dumping without treatment. I can say that the pipes leading to the main sewer line must have been very clean. I had a basic idea of what you were doing with it from your video, but a lot of that stuff is beyond my realm of knowledge so I was curious if you just kept the buckets or not. Thanks. Apparently a lot of people are interested in this stuff as you have a ton of views and comments from this one video.
Why not just pour it all down the bathroom sink?
Your wife allows for all of these chemicals laying around?
this video could have reached 2million views if it was called " how not to do Gold Recovery"
Actually the correct title would be "The one weird trick to gold recovery" or "Banned video!! Gold recovery trick the government doesn't want you to know!!!"
jokes on you kid, it reached almost 3 million views
Gold extracted: 50 dollars;
Materials: 300 million dollars;
Hobby: priceless.
65 dollars?
Little Bull Adventures $53 worth of gold I'd say go get more cpus and cell phone motherboards and let's extract gold
Mandela Effect what would be the monthly cost of chemicals and other essentials months if say working at 1000 cpus per month.
i would say somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $75 dollars , give or take .
Question from an ignorant youtuber... why not just incinerate the whole thing until the gold melts off and separates? would this not work?
No, the gold would alloy with the other metals and make it very difficult to seperate.
sreetips oh I see, makes sense now. Thanks.
Chemical separation is the way to get pure gold from these melting them would still need to be chem seperated
But what if you use Mercury to separate the gold
Oscar Gonzalez because it wouldn't separate all of the impurities from it, thus wasting your time and possibly hazardous to your health
your work and precision is remarkable, i hope you expand your work to larger quantities
Are all chemists this desperate for gold?
I took a chemistry class in high school some 45 years ago, got a "D". I'm not a chemist.
You look like a chemist. Is this a trick?
Not at all. I have nearly zero chemistry training. It's all just intense interest in refining that has driven me to this point.
sreetips That is something a chemist would say. Sure you don't work for Aperture Science?
I couldn't tell you the difference between a valance electron and a photon or a neutron. I just never studied it. Besides, to refine gold and silver you don't need much knowledge of chemistry, maybe become very familiar with the "reactivity series of metals" it is used in nearly ever phase of refining all the way down to waste treatment.
Is that all you have to do...lol
When I read the descriptions on screen I can hear your voice talking in my head. Words like metabisulfite 😂
I have that same air pump on my 200 gallon fish tank 😂
It's a good one, I've had it for over a year
sreetips it is a great pump btw your work is amazing I subscribed to you friend 😊