I will rarely dumpster anything computer related ... at least intact :). The motherboards and cards usually have enough gold to be of some interest to gold scrappers (Pax may have more to say about this!) Personally, I have a box that I toss old cards into and sell them every six months to a year. Depending on the gold content, I usually get somewhere around $0.50 - $1.00 per pound. No idea if this is good/bad/indifferent but it sure beats giving it away to the electronic recyclers (we can't through electronics into the dumpster here in Kalifornia.)