athlon-power wrote on 2021-02-09, 22:38:
I've used old Socket 370 coolers originally designed for Celerons on Socket 7 that fit well because they are usually smaller than contemporary PIII/Athlon heatsinks, but are still way overkill for most CPUs on S7, even the faster ones. I'm not as sure, but Duron coolers might work as well. Something like the CPU coolers from the third row down in the picture Tetrium posted.
I presume you'r referring to these?
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The 2 in red are stock Intel s370 CPU HSFs and are imo the best fit for s7 which has components blocking the vicinity of the CPU socket as these don't have any (or hardly any) overhang and are quite beefy (also the base is quite beefy).
I hate the stock clips though. Can't (easily) mount or demount them so I would swap out the retention clip with a different one. And the stock fans are often also quite noisy, so you might wanna replace those as well.
The CPU HSF to the direct right of the 2 marked ones is also a stock Intel CPU HSF, but it has more overhang and the CPU HSF directly below that one (the one with the holographic AMD logo on the fan) is a later stock AMD sA HSF, which works really great in Coppermine/Tualatin systems (IF you manage to actually mount it on a Tualatin CPU in a way that doesn't cause too much stress on the socket tabs that is, important to remember this).
In the row above the ones with the marked CPU HSFs, the most right one is a s7 CPU HSF which will fit anything s370 easily, but I wouldn't really recommend using such a CPU HSF on anything like a K6-III or a 800MHz or faster Coppermine (say, no more that 30W CPU power dissipation). It should work perfectly fine for something like a Pentium MMX though. Really quiet as well. Or use those fans (especially the quit ones which can also move decent amounts of air) as donor for the s370 stock Intel HSFs 😜