(02/12/2010 07:58 PM)Barcelona Wrote:  you know, maybe its BECAUSE gold has a higher melting point...

Doubt it.  I can't see many such electrical equipment being designed for >900C temperatures.

(02/12/2010 07:58 PM)Barcelona Wrote:  the gold in motherboards is only about 9 carat from what i read, so price isn't the issue (same thing could be done to silver i strongly believe)

So 37.5%?  That's still around 18 times the price of silver.

(02/12/2010 07:58 PM)Barcelona Wrote:  OK! What about rarity? america, along with 90% of the world has STOCKPILES of gold, but not of silver

You'd expect price to reflect supply if this is the case.
Besides, the available stockpile of silver is irrelevant to an one of those companies.  All they need to care about is cost.
If it's cheap, they'll keep buying it, effectively pushing the price up.  But obviously, that's not happening.  I don't see anyone able to exort so much market power that they can control such a large global commodity market - not that it'll do them any good to artificially keep prices down.

(This post was last modified: 02/12/2010 08:08 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)