How much gold is in really old computers?

If you are asking about a garden variety desktop computer, there is about US$9.00 worth of gold in a computer. At current gold prices, this works out to about 0.0005 US pounds, which is around 0.008 US ounces, which is also about equal to 0.237 ml. read more

Up to around 1998, very fine solid gold wiring was used in wire bonding the computer chip (die) to the substrate packaging. Gold wire used in Integrated circuit packaging were typically 99.9% pure gold. All other components (caps, lids, pins & pads) were only gold-plated. read more