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.
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Look for [Ever Cool EC-486 40mmx40mm Fan Intel 486 CPU Cooler] via Google
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
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..
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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.
wrote:If you have access to a 3d printer this could be interesting:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258I 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..)
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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.
Even back then the most common way was to glue the heatsink on the CPU.
If it was good enough for the period I think your ok.
water cooled 486
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