What to do with old CPU chips?

[Rick Prosser]

I am looking for any creative ideas for what to do with hundreds of used Celeron Processor 440 2GHz 800MHz LGA775 SL9XL chips.

Doing CPU upgrades at my job, and have all the old ones to dispose of. Anything besides throwing them in the scrap bin?

I thought about Ebay, but the company does not have an account, and the red tape to go thru would not be worthwhile.

I just don't have any other ideas...

[Pat Germain]

Elementary school art projects? I don't think they would have much use as actual computer chips anymore.

Overseas buyers might be interested, but that's even more red tape; and possibly against technology transfer laws.

[Darius Ferlas]

You could make a buck making hi-tech fur brushes like one I made a few months ago. It runts at 1.8GHz ;)

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=116526

[Dan Friedrichs]

If you really have hundreds of them, it might be worth determining their gold content. I'm unfamiliar with prices and gold content in these more recent chips, but old 486 processors had ~$1 worth of gold in each one.

[Harry Hagan]

Chip and salsa . . . mmmmmmmmm goood

[Anthony Scira]

Right here !

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/cpu-desk.jpg

If you don't want them I will buy them from you and make one !

How much you want for em !
:D

[Eric Franklin]

Anthony, I was going to recommend doing something like that.

[Stephen Tashiro]

Contact a retailer that sells used chips like Starmicro. Do a business-to-business sale.

[Bryan Morgan]

I usually take them to the shooting range...:D

[Jon Lanier]

glue them together and turn them into pens.

[Stephen Tashiro]

Starmicro sells those chips for $36 each.


www.starmicro.net/SearchResult.aspx?KeyWords=http://www.starmicro.net/SearchResult.aspx?KeyWords=LGA775%20SL9XL

[Randal Stevenson]

Right here !

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/cpu-desk.jpg

If you don't want them I will buy them from you and make one !

How much you want for em !
:D

Now THAT is cool.

Another option, is to see if you have a place that recycles pc's, as several of them are connected to places that build pc's for low income students.

[Matt Meiser]

That desk surface is really cool!

[Jim Becker]

I second the "art work" suggestion...they shouldn't go into the landfill due to issues with some of the materials they are made from anyway.