maybeh they tested em and they are all worth only their weight in gold ?

Kudos to you but I find that so frustrating that you have access to those resources because you work there, meanwhile I obey the posted no-pilfering signs at my local drop-off. If you find some working 4th gen, go easy on your ask ;-)

*three weeks later*

I have test 137 cpu's...

only three of them work...

Two pentium D's and a an i3-2130 which cant run at its turbo speed

meanwhile at the office, we have so many decommissioned desktops we're using them as shelving to put other stuff on

Guys, I've sampled this pile and every CPU has worked so far

They toss ANYTHING that isn't an i3, i5, or i7...

Their loss, my gain

Where is this that you work? I mean, type of business or facility, not business name, obviously.

a consultancy, and one thing we do is rental desktops, as in they pay a flat monthly fee and we do maintenances, repairs, and replacements as needed.

which means every 4 years we have one hell of a pile of desktops

I hope you're not based in my area. We're about to fire a company that does that for us...

Wait, not I'm confused. I was asking Yoshi because I thought he worked at the place that is getting rid of those chips.

chance is rather small, we only have one client who is crazy enough to pay the price of before mentioned "platinum" service, ending up at like €200/mo per desktop, and they're so satisfied they do so gladly

"for gold"

You wouldn't get a fraction of your money back in gold.

I actually work there. I'm the TV repairman.