I was contemplating the same thing a couple years ago, but I ended up wanting to try making my own from leftover stock s754/s939 heatsinks.

They have the right dimensions, but iirc they kinda needed to be installed with a quarter turn and it needed some work with the metal of the heatsink.

I ended up never actually trying this, partially because I already have a s8 heatsink and don't need another one.

Don't need much but I think copper Socket A coolers can work provided you found ones that are just large enough to cover area over both the core and the cache, all you would need is to make or modify the mounting clips needed to mount the coolers. If all else look for 1U server coolers and cook something up, one can probably go to the extreme of making one large cooler to cool both procs (or more) out of multiple smaller coolers provided there was nothing in the way between the sockets ect.

If you got any metal working skills and some imagination you should be able to make something awesome. I used to do hard core cooling mods of all kinds (air only) that worked well.

They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway.

luckybob wrote:

They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway.

I thought Pentium Pro chips were known for running hot. Then again, I'm probably getting them mixed up with Socket 4 Pentiums. 😜

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

luckybob wrote:

They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway.

I thought Pentium Pro chips were known for running hot. Then again, I'm probably getting them mixed up with Socket 4 Pentiums. 😜

They do run hot (around 50W or so? Socket 4 runs a lot cooler than that). The main problem is finding a good heatsink that fits s8. Otherwise just adding a better fan would I reckon be the easiest way to obtain better cooling.

50w is the maximum for the 1mb chip. This isn't as much of a big deal as it seems to be. If you can find an old server and salvage its heatsinks, put on a decent 60mm fan, your right as rain.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

luckybob wrote:

They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway.

I thought Pentium Pro chips were known for running hot. Then again, I'm probably getting them mixed up with Socket 4 Pentiums. 😜

Socket 4 was hot for the time but it is only a candle to procs that came later, just slap on a fan and cool as cucumber.