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Are the gold pentiums really rare or something?

Maximilian

Maximilian

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These ones:
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None on ebay :/
 
wow is that a p2? Thats cool ive never seen a gold one before.I have a p3 single core but ive never removed the heat sink before.
 
It isn't a P2. It is the original Pentium 60MHz. First chip to ever wear the Pentium name. Gold ones like that came up to 100MHz I believe, they were phased out in favor of full ceramic packaged ones when I believe they switched from 0.6µm to 0.35µm
 
Maximilian said:
Yeah im in the UK 🙁
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Strange... I did a quick search on ebay.co.uk and it just seems like there's not many pentiums in general. I'm sure if you could find some kind of computer surplus store around you they may have one. Or pay the 30 euro shipping from the US 😛

EDIT: Here are some semi-affordable ones, ridiculous to pay that much for that CPU though
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Intel-Pentium...ltDomain_0&hash=item5641aa5ed7#ht_2774wt_1139
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Rare-...24?pt=CPUs&hash=item2a0de0ee5c#ht_2261wt_1178
 
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actaully its going to be hard to find those.

There was quite a bit of gold used in the pins on those cpu's, not a lot, but, more then what is used now.

So they were salvaged for the gold.
 
Spikesoldier said:
probably in china or wherever all the e-waste goes.
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actually no.. gold dealers bought them direct.. and then shaved the pins down to melt them.

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as i said there is quite a bit of gold used in the old cpu pins.
And its not cheap ct. gold either.

So when dealers can get dead cpu's with gold cheaper then the cost of gold straight, it was a no brainer.
Especially if ur a jewelry specialist who has tools to melt gold down and reshape them.
 
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Ok its gold. mm looks nice wait let me oput it in the board eh why did I just waste money on a golden cpu old as the hills that no can see how posh it looks?
 
The way they recover gold from electronics is etching and electrolysis. Etching involves using acids designs to dissolve the gold and later the gold is recovered from the liquid. Electrolysis uses the same process that was used to put the gold onto the parts but in reverse. They drop all the shredded metal in plastic vats of acidic solution where they settle on metal mats at the bottom . The mat is connected to an anode of a dc power supply. They apply a small current and the gold detaches from the shreds to the collecting part attached to the cathode , usually made of copper, at the top of the vat. By choosing the cathode metal and acid solution they can do other metals like nickel or copper.

Electrolysis is fun to play with. You can take something like copper and plate it to other metals. Or nickel and plate it . I made some nickel coated pennies once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroplating
 
eh? tom's removed the gold from CPU pins and found there was barely any at all. certainly not enough to make it worthwhile. that's just plating, not pure gold.

i think i've got some gold pentiums. and gold pentium pros.

wonder if my pentium pro will still boot? uses a dell power supply so i'd have to get an adapter or rewire something.
 
LiuKangBakinPie said:
Ok its gold. mm looks nice wait let me oput it in the board eh why did I just waste money on a golden cpu old as the hills that no can see how posh it looks?
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Some people collect them like coins. Like having a collection of the very first 8086 and each revision until the Core2. The dies and mask are also sought by collectors

Some collectors items
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G13710
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G14259
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G5735
 
I have a few of them, they're in the UK too, since that's where I am. Got a couple of P60's that came out of functioning computers. Didn't know they were rare lol.

EDIT : Just got one out of storage, not perfect... But it is an old one now 😀

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ElFenix said:
eh? tom's removed the gold from CPU pins and found there was barely any at all. certainly not enough to make it worthwhile. that's just plating, not pure gold.
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i remember in the old days when people were collecting it.

They could get a dead cpu for like 50 cents or less even in bulk.

Its not something everyone will find worthwhile, but i remember it was still cheaper then market price.
 
Also on a semi related note, why were they all packaged differently? I see 3 different types, theres the gold ones, the plain looking ones pictured above, and the black leathery types which mostly seem to be 200mhz MMX models. Why was that? Theres even overlap as well like 166mhz plain ones and 166 leathery black ones.

Dont see that today, everything has generally looked the same from both camps since socket 754 and 478.
 
Its pretty cool looking,I think it would be a great addition to a cpu collection whether its worthless or not. I love collecting old tech even if i become a pack rat its a great hobby
 
Maximilian said:
Also on a semi related note, why were they all packaged differently? I see 3 different types, theres the gold ones, the plain looking ones pictured above, and the black leathery types which mostly seem to be 200mhz MMX models. Why was that? Theres even overlap as well like 166mhz plain ones and 166 leathery black ones.

Dont see that today, everything has generally looked the same from both camps since socket 754 and 478.
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i had a p1 233 mmx that was on the PPGA package. this is the same package we saw the first socket 370 celerons on.
 
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