You can still buy them new, or pick em up for cheap on Ebay.

Here is a picture of my S370 setup with DUAL FAN cooling system, just as an idea 😊

^^^least it cools the ram as well

😀 it's really an Cool'n'Quiet system...

I have an original Scythe Ninja laying around for all my socket 478 cooling needs, that thing can keep even the hottest Prescotts cool 😁

I put a heat pipe tower chipset heat sink on my sk370 system. Haha way over kill.

I'd say an evo 212 hacked to mount 370/462/478.

There is that Startech copper cooler that works really well with socket 370.

As far as socket A and 478 are concerned, your only option is to track down big, copper coolers from the era unfortunately 🙁.

Either make your own or marry the mounting from an old crummy 370/462/478 cooler to a present day cooler like the evo 212, now you have all the cooling you need with way bigger coolers than during that time.

StarTech have a 478 cooler, but looking at it I think it's good up to 2.8 or maybe 3 GHz. I can't stand the boxed coolers, they are a pain to remove and work with...

Yea the copper startech cooler for socket 370 are good, but idk if they would keep the socket 462 cool enough though.

As for the socket 478 I did this to my one computer I call blackmagic and overclock the crap out of it, but i would like to find a better way of doing it then this...

I wonder if there were any of these plug-n-play water-cooling setups around, back then. I'd like to use one on a 478 system, but I've never built one of the custom water-cooling setups.

Hey you could always mount one of those 15k rpm Delta fans on a bare cpu. Just rig it up to float over the top of it with some zip ties! Who needs heatsinks when you have MASSIVE AIRFLOW!!!

ODwilly wrote:

Hey you could always mount one of those 15k rpm Delta fans on a bare cpu. Just rig it up to float over the top of it with some zip ties! Who needs heatsinks when you have MASSIVE AIRFLOW!!!

Isn't it kind of necessary to have a heatsink of some sort to keep the CPU from cooking itself?

Im not sure. Depends on how much air you can move. I tested a bunch of cpus on a 478 dell with a fast 80mm fan blowing over it on the bench and it stayed cool

Im pretty sure having a heatsink will take of a few degrees cause it transfers it from the cpu, also heat rises upward.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

ODwilly wrote:

Hey you could always mount one of those 15k rpm Delta fans on a bare cpu. Just rig it up to float over the top of it with some zip ties! Who needs heatsinks when you have MASSIVE AIRFLOW!!!

Isn't it kind of necessary to have a heatsink of some sort to keep the CPU from cooking itself?

Do not make fun of massive airflow, once you seen such a powerfan in action, it will blow you away 😎
🤣!

If I remember correctly, the 478 can be made to work with 775 towers and water blocks. Just pop out the plastic surround and you can then use those socket 775 "X" shaped retention brackets to the back of the motherboard.

The holes for that junky plastic surround are a perfect match for the mounting holes of socket 775, but the socket is a wee bit taller. Just adjust the mounting pressure to be a bit less.

Kodai wrote:

If I remember correctly, the 478 can be made to work with 775 towers and water blocks. Just pop out the plastic surround and you can then use those socket 775 "X" shaped retention brackets to the back of the motherboard.

The holes for that junky plastic surround are a perfect match for the mounting holes of socket 775, but the socket is a wee bit taller. Just adjust the mounting pressure to be a bit less.

There sure is a way to mount 775 coolers on socket 478, and some coolers work without brackets too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGPRYylj5o