Welcome aboard, young lurkling! 😁

I see you're using a stock Intel HSF. I always found those to make a nasty whining noise. Btw are the clips that attach the HSF to the socket made out of plastic? If they are, I always found those to be brittle.
I always re-use the heatsinks, use a clip from a spare HSF and use a fan from somewhere else (6cm fits easily and a 7cm fan (from for instance a stock AMD Athlon64 HSF) will fit kinda (can only use 3 screws iirc, but it's nicely cool and more silent)).

You "could" get yourself a Tualatin-s 1400, they are available and reasonably cheap and will be a big performance step-up from your Celeron 1000A. If supply of those CPU's ever run out, you might feel "unlucky" you never got yourself any.

Now about your other spare parts...
I suppose your Katmai 450 conbined with one of your 16MB 3DFX cards "could" be a nice addition to your collection. I'm just not sure what other parts you have laying around.

Be warned though! If you start collecting hardware, this might take up considerable space (and possibly time and money) but if that's something you really enjoy doing (building retro computers) then it's up to you if you want to start this new hobby.

Theres plenty disadvantages as well as advantages to this, but maybe this is for another topic and another time, I'll leave that up to you 😉

The Intel HSF.....I've seen someone sell a Socket A motherboard that had a such thing.Board was a K7S5A,along with a HP P4SD and some OEM S370 board.

As far as I'm concerned, messing around with old computer equipment and software is a drug. It has all the same symptoms as a drug. Spending money you shouldn't. Spending a huge amount of time on one thing. And then, getting that high. Anyone who has ever spent a day or more on a machine and eventually won the battle knows exactly what I speak of. Keep chasing that dragon brothers and sisters!

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Welcome aboard, young lurkling! 😁

I see you're using a stock Intel HSF. I always found those to make a nasty whining noise. Btw are the clips that attach the HSF to the socket made out of plastic? If they are, I always found those to be brittle.
I always re-use the heatsinks, use a clip from a spare HSF and use a fan from somewhere else (6cm fits easily and a 7cm fan (from for instance a stock AMD Athlon64 HSF) will fit kinda (can only use 3 screws iirc, but it's nicely cool and more silent)).

You "could" get yourself a Tualatin-s 1400, they are available and reasonably cheap and will be a big performance step-up from your Celeron 1000A. If supply of those CPU's ever run out, you might feel "unlucky" you never got yourself any.

Now about your other spare parts...
I suppose your Katmai 450 conbined with one of your 16MB 3DFX cards "could" be a nice addition to your collection. I'm just not sure what other parts you have laying around.

Be warned though! If you start collecting hardware, this might take up considerable space (and possibly time and money) but if that's something you really enjoy doing (building retro computers) then it's up to you if you want to start this new hobby.

Theres plenty disadvantages as well as advantages to this, but maybe this is for another topic and another time, I'll leave that up to you 😉

Yep I have the Intel stock HSF but it does use metal clips. The were a pain to clip on as the metal was quite stiff. That is a good thing I guess; good thermal contact. The Tualatin-s 1400 is a good idea. I see on eBay they have ones pin modded and some without. Since I have a Slot T and a native Tualatin supporting board I guess I could just get a standard one. I read on the guys listing from Korea that his pin mod makes it a few mm thicker. I am concerned that this may make it almost impossible to mount a Socket 370 HSF combo. I do have a few spare Thermaltake Socket 370 / Socket A coolers laying around. Hopefully my wife hasn't found them and thrown them out. That is a possibility.

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Yep I have the Intel stock HSF but it does use metal clips. The were a pain to clip on as the metal was quite stiff. That is a good thing I guess; good thermal contact. The Tualatin-s 1400 is a good idea. I see on eBay they have ones pin modded and some without. Since I have a Slot T and a native Tualatin supporting board I guess I could just get a standard one. I read on the guys listing from Korea that his pin mod makes it a few mm thicker. I am concerned that this may make it almost impossible to mount a Socket 370 HSF combo. I do have a few spare Thermaltake Socket 370 / Socket A coolers laying around. Hopefully my wife hasn't found them and thrown them out. That is a possibility.

As fc-pga2 chips are taller, you need to apply more force to get the clip to attach. Just keep in mind that you could break one of the tabs (hopefully while you're mounting the thing). If that happens, you can fix it with superglue.

Thermal conductivity doesn't seem as important to me for your particular chip (or any Pentium 3 for that matter) as these chips run pretty cool anyway.

Thanks for the advice. Will keep that in mind for my next build. I have the retro pc itch, but not really the cash to scratch it.

Very few DOS games has specific support of AWE32/AWE64 RAM, and for those with such support the onboard 4 megabytes of AWE64 Gold are more than enough.

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That is a good thing I guess; good thermal contact. The Tualatin-s 1400 is a good idea. I see on eBay they have ones pin modded and some without. Since I have a Slot T and a native Tualatin supporting board I guess I could just get a standard one. I read on the guys listing from Korea that his pin mod makes it a few mm thicker. I am concerned that this may make it almost impossible to mount a Socket 370 HSF combo. I do have a few spare Thermaltake Socket 370 / Socket A coolers laying around. Hopefully my wife hasn't found them and thrown them out. That is a possibility.

I'd first try to run the Celeron 1000A at FSB133 first. (That is, if you didn't already do that and if your board allows setting the FSB.) I don't know how much more performance a PIII-S would give.
(This should be an easy overclock, nearly all Celerons 1000A should do this, mine did. The nice thing is that FSB, PCI and AGP will still run in spec.)