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Someone got too excited with the thermal compound 
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Don't forget to do some Spring cleaning!
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he had heard good things about the aquarium pc, and was just doing some preliminary testing 
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What is the best way of disposing of a CPU? Other than just tossing out in the trash....don't what mah infoz out "there", lol
I have 2 towers that I need to get rid of and I also have 2-3 hard drives from even older CPUs.
I have 2 towers that I need to get rid of and I also have 2-3 hard drives from even older CPUs.
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@ "CPU"The trash company won't take them here in the normal trash pickup. I remove the hard drives and then take the computer to the landfill. They have a specific area for old equipment.
Take all the hard drives out of the towers then just toss or recycle them.
I'm not sure on the correct way to permanently wipe a hard drive but I'm sure someone else knows.
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The hard drives are my main concern....
Sledge hammer and a fire pit.
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You could strip all of the components out of the case and sell them on ebay as well. Some people do gold recovery on motherboards/cpus. There isn't a ton, but some people buy huge quantities of old stuff purely to smelt the gold out of the parts.
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people would still buy the boards....even broken ones for gold recovery
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Meh. Going HULK is better than getting a few bucks for the parts.
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gold scrap/gold recovery stuff is all over ebay. Example
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1lb-Mixed-S...653811?hash=item2815eea773:g:f~QAAOSwpoJXDooB
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Interesting.....I might have $5-$10, lol
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This
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Apple reported $40 million dollars of scrap gold from recycling junk/broken electronics in one year...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/15/technology/apple-gold-recycling/
I used to live in the third floor of a building, and I've thrown quite a few old electronics out the window. Once, me and my brother in law took some old equipment in the backyard and beat the **** out of it with cheap samurai swords.