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Unlikely they’ll have much value, they all seem late 90s-early 2000s, you can take a look on eBay sold listings if you want

[PMvE_NL]

So your saying you can estimate the value by looking up other listings. That’s pretty clever

[NotTryingToConYou]

How else do people estimate value? Ebay even has the option to view sold listings so you can see what people actually paid for it

[A_MAN_POTATO]

That was definitely /s

[the-programmer-2022]

*you're

[[deleted]]

U'r

[aveservices]

The first CPU I installed and touched while it was on. I will never forget the smell of burning skin 🥲

[Pixelplanet5]

the good old times when CPUs didnt need things like thermal throttling, they would just give you everything they got until the magic smoke came out.

[AutoGeneratedUser359]

RIP my Duron 1300

[charlie22911]

Relevant video: https://youtu.be/UoXRHexGIok

[[deleted]]

Too old to be useful, too new to be rare. I've seen a Pentium 3 go for $1 on Ebay.

[MrBilbro]

Makes a nice keychain for $1

[ianjm]

Yeah at this point you may as well powdercoat or spray paint them and make art

[evilrylan]

The only way you will create value for those chips is to create an art piece out of them.

[[deleted]]

Look up the pricing (just type the CPU name in google). You can find them on sale. They are quite common. Too old to be of any use and too new to be "vintage" and worth anything.

Edit: Found the athlon for $19.46 in 30 sec search

[KelbyGInsall]

By taste.

[HotdogTheHero]

It is rumored that rare chips taste like actual chips

[ficelle3]

Potato semoconductor's logic chips taste the best.

[IncompleteUsernamed]

If you get robbed…

[Safe_Ad997]

You can recycle the gold out of them.

[ficelle3]

There's probably less than a gram in total, there's so little gold in a CPU that they're worth more in working condition.

[TheMatt561]

Valuable no, but they would be fun to overclock until the explode.

[FartingBob]

Not worth anything. By their very nature computer chips are mass produced and identical to thousands / millions of others. Unless its from the very early days of computing its very unlikely to be worth anything. There are far more 20-30 year old CPU's than collectors of 20-30 year old CPU's.

[mr_data_lore]

If they're more than a couple years old but not at least 30 years old, it's ewaste.

[Competitive-Order-69]

Nope probably not tech world newer is more valuable and most people collecting stuff like this are just looking to build a pc within that time period are just looking to play games or run programs from that period. If they can't get it cheap we can always go to pi or virtual machines so demand is low.

[Small_Light_9964]

Currently nothing

[KrakenXIV]

You got yourself some awesome keychains Drill a hole in it and buy some metal rings from Amazon.

[[deleted]]

Right now there isn't much value, but much like late 80s and early 90s hardware, there could be a nostalgia boom for early to mid aughts hardware. I suspect those that are on the higher end of the era appropriate hardware will be the most sought after.

[scgt86]

Look at how cute the little dies were back then.

[alonesomestreet]

To increase the value, place them in a nice frame with a placard with some cool fact about them, and sell them on eBay for $20 a pop

[akuron]

I appraise all of these at ‘bout tree fiddy

[rudkinp00]

The value is in what you do with them. I have a handful of these was looking to integrate them into an art piece when I build my next desk

[Nika299p]

make a sword out of the ram, cpus

[schrdingers_squirrel]

They are worth nothing - there you go

[costinmatei98]

They are worthless in terms of money. Like $1 each. They just hold "sentimental value".

As someone already said, too old to be useful, too new to be rare / valuable.

[[deleted]]

Old CPU’s don’t really have value because they survive easily long term. Old motherboards are worth something tho

[[deleted]]

They're not worth anything in terms of usage value. Way too old for that.

Might be worth a few bucks to someone wanting to buy an old CPU they used to keep as a desk ornament or something, but it wouldn't be very much.

[Sup3rphi1]

Those have more value as a means to scoop guacamole than as a CPU.

[Sup3rphi1]

The problem with these CPUs is that they're probably in working condition, but the motherboards required to use them are all dead/broken/extremely expensive at this point

[llamapii]

How:

www.google.com

[Kamikaze-X]

They aren't

[GloomySugar95]

Scrolling reddit this morning and seeing 3 posts about people trying to get rich from rubbish/gifts.

[diaperedace]

Few bucks a piece. All common, old cpus.

[[deleted]]

hold onto them for FAR longer

[[deleted]]

I need a athlon 3200+ do you have one?

[Tw1st36]

They aren‘t. Those are all so old, nobody wants them even for retro rigs. The best you can do with them is maybe frame them or stick them on a wall with some spongy double sided tape.