Very nice! It really looks great!

I can't wait to get done with my new P3 system as well.

tayyare wrote:

It's not false advertising. Socket 7 is compatible with socket 370 coolers. And this cooler is an exact representative of what we had during the days as a 3rd party socket 370 cooler. During the days, the "cooling craze" was not in action, and CPUs were not pulling more watts than your oven or iron. Besides, socket 7 coolers are much more flimsy and toy like when compared to this one.

It never caused me any trouble, that cooler, but I've long since switched it out for a golden orb, which just looks cooler regardless of its thermal properties 😀

alexanrs wrote:

Woah, so many nice looking retro PCs! Wish I had that many mint-looking cases! Did you retrobright-them?

Nar they're all just carefully selected from the countless yellowed and busted up cases I've come across over the last couple of years. I did go through a retrobrighting phase but never found it to be satisfactory / worth the trouble, and ultimately tossed those cases in the end. Painting them is the way to go if you get desperate, IMHO.

badmojo wrote:

tayyare wrote:

It's not false advertising. Socket 7 is compatible with socket 370 coolers. And this cooler is an exact representative of what we had during the days as a 3rd party socket 370 cooler. During the days, the "cooling craze" was not in action, and CPUs were not pulling more watts than your oven or iron. Besides, socket 7 coolers are much more flimsy and toy like when compared to this one.

It never caused me any trouble, that cooler, but I've long since switched it out for a golden orb, which just looks cooler regardless of its thermal properties 😀

I used Arctic thermal adhesive to attach a Golden Orb to a Socket 4 Pentium 😊 have to replace a soldered Dallas RTC battery but I would imagine that the HSF might be kiiiinda overkill for that.