Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-09 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> That's interesting, my local recycler sells boards to me at $1-$3/lb > depending on some notion of scrap metal content, so I'm usually looking at > around $2 per card (untested). I wonder if it's one of those things where > there's a huge amount of regional variation? Age of the boards,

Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-09 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 11/8/18 12:48 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is that the gold value, by the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping, and labor

Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Ive been kinda debating setting up a web store and stockpiling the nicer pci, isa and agp cards that would be otherwise scrapped out at the shop. If you are in need of a card, let me know and i can set you up with a deal, tested worKing. just send me an email with what you need and i will let

Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> $7-10 to sort out and carefully handle (vs usual strip for gold recovery), > seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd expect the cost has more to do with > labor than gold being recovered. Yes, probably half of the asking price is the metal, the rest is labor, shipping and handling, and just a plain

Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
$7-10 to sort out and carefully handle (vs usual strip for gold recovery), seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd expect the cost has more to do with labor than gold being recovered. Pat On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:17 PM William Donzelli via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > That being said,

Re: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> That being said, I > think anyone under the illusion that there's a worthwhile amount of gold > in a Sound Blaster has been spending too much time huffing mercury fumes. That, or they might actually understand how the scrap industry works. -- Will

RE: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is that the gold value, by the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping, and labor

RE: ISA sound and video cards, and PCI? AGP?

2018-11-08 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
The problem with trying to get these any cheaper is that the gold value, by the pound, exceeds what I think an untested card should go for. They want to charge me $7-10 PER CARD, and that is untested. Then I have to pay shipping, and labor to get them tested. Sorry if this seems unreasonable to