Going through my stuff, I realised that I have a lot of old coolers.. probably around 30-40. Most of them (99%) are stock coolers from Intel and AMD. Any idea what to do with them?
Well, the round Intel stock coolers are good for scrap since that's are they are good for in the first place.
Most/all of the AMD ones should have heatpipes, correct? I would keep those. They can also be adapted for use with other sockets if need be.
I actually modified a socket 939 heatpipe cooler to use on a Slot-A CPU. Works great.
None of the coolers have heatpipes.
I'd probably isolate the more burly-looking (taller, copper core, etc) ones, and then keep two of each for Intel and AMD.
As a note, s775 stock coolers are only compatible with s775 without mods, while AM2(+)/AM3(+) stock coolers are backwards compatible with s939, s940, and s754 as long as the motherboard retention brackets are present.
