Hi 😀

It's a good start!
Your CPU HSF seems like a nice one to use for Tualatins and the other s370 CPUs with IHS.
It looks fairly large, I ran into a 'slight' problem with a large CPU cooler and a Coppermine 800 or 866 (very similar to yours) as the very large HSF would (for whatever reason) sometimes stop making good contact with the CPU. Resetting the CPU HSF fixed it for a while till it would happen again.

Replacing that very large CPU HSF with a smaller one ended up fixing this odd boot problem with this rig.

Good luck with completing your build, and have fun 😀

Btw, what PSU are you gonna be using? WinXP will run a bit slow, unless you run an earlier and/or tweaked version of XP.
ME would run nicely on such a rig.

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Hi 😀

It's a good start!
Your CPU HSF seems like a nice one to use for Tualatins and the other s370 CPUs with IHS.
It looks fairly large, I ran into a 'slight' problem with a large CPU cooler and a Coppermine 800 or 866 (very similar to yours) as the very large HSF would (for whatever reason) sometimes stop making good contact with the CPU. Resetting the CPU HSF fixed it for a while till it would happen again.

Replacing that very large CPU HSF with a smaller one ended up fixing this odd boot problem with this rig.

Good luck with completing your build, and have fun 😀

Btw, what PSU are you gonna be using? WinXP will run a bit slow, unless you run an earlier and/or tweaked version of XP.
ME would run nicely on such a rig.

I wasn't able to find any S370 cooler so I borrowed that cooler from a Socket A system. 😁 It have pretty good contact but I will change it if I can find something better.

And for PSU I will propably use a Enlight HPC-300-202.

The cooler is actually really good for a Coppermine. If you don't run into any problems, you might as well leave it as is 😀

I also like your (yet uncompleted) rig because it's not just maxed everywhere, I assume you kinda put it together with what you had laying around?
Or did you really plan it this way?