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First post, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-06-18, 09:12

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Other than getting a suitably sized chipset cooling and sticking it onto the CPU ceramic with thermal adhesive tape, what are my contemporary options for cooling 486 processors, DX2 onwards? I can' t seem to source any coolers, although new Socket 7 coolers are not that hard to come by.

Reply 1 of 8, by PARKE

Posted on 2018-06-18, 09:35

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Look for [Ever Cool EC-486 40mmx40mm Fan Intel 486 CPU Cooler] via Google

Reply 2 of 8, by tayyare

Posted on 2018-06-18, 10:47

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https://www.ebay.com/p/Ever-Cool-Ec-486-40mmx … oler/1138358793

If you somehow can do the shopping from ebay, though...

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 3 of 8, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-06-18, 10:58

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12 bucks for shipping one cooler is outrageous, and amazon doesn't ship here either. Sad face.. I will probably just use the Overdrive CPUs I have instead - would have liked to use the 3V chips though..

Reply 4 of 8, by mcobit

Posted on 2018-06-18, 13:38

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If you have access to a 3d printer this could be interesting:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258

I use them myself and finding passive coolers that fit is quite easy.

Reply 5 of 8, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-06-18, 13:56

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mcobit wrote:
If you have access to a 3d printer this could be interesting:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258

I use them myself and finding passive coolers that fit is quite easy.

That's actually not a bad idea, but I don't have any 486 coolers compatible with this.

I think I will just use chipset coolers and adhesive thermal tape.. And hope I can pry it off later when I need to.. (or just stick to using Intel Overdrive CPUs for the time being..)

Reply 6 of 8, by mcobit

Posted on 2018-06-18, 14:18

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A lot of chipset coolers will fit the inner dimensions. If they are too high, you can dremel a nudge into the sides of them where the clips can grab onto.