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Can't place this one

That one is a Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap Chips

I found it in the gallery under these links.

http://boardsort.com/cpg15x/thumbnails.php?album=30

http://boardsort.com/cpg15x/displayimag ... fullsize=1

Ya that's more than likely what they'll pay. But correct if I'm wrong but I've always known a gold capped bottom without other markings to be a 386- 486 era chip, gold capped tops 5-6x86 era. In the gallery for IBM gold capped pay I see two gold capped bottoms, sure lookin like 386 cpus. Anybody see that? But who knows, I do know that Boardsort pays more for 386 and 486 chips than the Pentium Pro, which blows my mind because those can generate an entire gram of gold, they weigh less than an ounce, so a pound of those can generate more than an ounce of gold! I don't know that that get many of those but I'm curious and going this week, gonna ask about that one.

You have to take into consideration the purity of the gold used and the time and chemicals required to refine the gold. Mike the Scrapper put out another video showing the entire process of just refining CPU pins, using the pins recovered from 50 green fiber without metal chips. The refining process took a few days and he needed several different acids.

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