I have seen tons of different coloured heatsinks on 486's. I had a gold/copper-coloured one on a 486-dx2-66 in an IBM at some point.
The glued on heatsinks, just came in whatever colour, the maker of a given machine chose to use. Basically it is just a standard CPU.

I'm pretty sure that's the color of the standard heatsink of the non-Overdrive version.

brostenen wrote on 2020-03-14, 11:49:

I have seen tons of different coloured heatsinks on 486's. I had a gold/copper-coloured one on a 486-dx2-66 in an IBM at some point.
The glued on heatsinks, just came in whatever colour, the maker of a given machine chose to use. Basically it is just a standard CPU.

I think he intend CPU stock directly from intel, not modify one by the PC builder.

AlessandroB wrote on 2020-03-14, 13:21:

brostenen wrote on 2020-03-14, 11:49:

I have seen tons of different coloured heatsinks on 486's. I had a gold/copper-coloured one on a 486-dx2-66 in an IBM at some point.
The glued on heatsinks, just came in whatever colour, the maker of a given machine chose to use. Basically it is just a standard CPU.

I think he intend CPU stock directly from intel, not modify one by the PC builder.

Ahhhh. I see. Well. In that case, I have no idea on what different colours Intel used for heatsinks that they sold preinstalled on their product's.

brostenen wrote on 2020-03-14, 11:49:

I have seen tons of different coloured heatsinks on 486's. I had a gold/copper-coloured one on a 486-dx2-66 in an IBM at some point.
The glued on heatsinks, just came in whatever colour, the maker of a given machine chose to use. Basically it is just a standard CPU.

these are the intel official heat sinks (the blue and the overdrive). the question: was the blue sink version an oem or a retail product?

here they write... boxed
http://www.cpu-galerie.de/html/intel486-80486dx2.html

but how the box looked? the overdrive is obvious.

DELL use to use Blue Heat sinks too.

thx... with this type of blue sink? in this case it looks, the blue version is also an oem solution.

No, that's the normal retail boxed release. OEM had no heatsink at all.

derSammler wrote on 2020-03-15, 11:14:

No, that's the normal retail boxed release. OEM had no heatsink at all.

where is the box? i did not see any, just overdrive boxes.

i found box with x87 cpus, pentium, etc, but nothing with 486, just the overdrive.

I was wondering the same thing. I think it would be pretty bad A to have one.

https://www.cpu-galerie.de/assets/images/Inte … hler-CPGA-F.JPG

Apparently they don't exist anymore.

I've seen them, but last one I saw in the wild was about 345 moons ago.

Yeah, it's probably best to look at motherboards if you want to find one, at least on Ebay. I got lucky and found mine attached to a board.

I've got one, it was found in a dead HP Vectra ISA only system.
It's a regular DX2-66, blue sink glued with all the Intel printings on it. To me it seems like an Intel product, not glued by hp.

Yah that's the time period I'd peg them for, first 2 or 3 years of DX2 existence, when they were high high end, and before VLB had much market penetration. Probably why they're not real common, volume would have been quite low compared to when the masses got DX2s.