Kahenraz wrote on 2021-09-07, 09:08:

Spotted this on eBay and found it very amusing.

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...on a flat plate 😀 😀 - I have a couple of these on IBM 1Ghz P3 / 133MHz slot 1s

One advantage I can see is that they are probably very light as an arrangement of fins and would pair well with a slocket.

Small equals noisy cooler. Can scuff crystal during installation too.

Standard cooling fan so means it is easily replaceable. A resistor or fan controller can also be used to adjust the speed to taste.

Kahenraz wrote on 2021-09-07, 09:18:

One advantage I can see is that they are probably very light as an arrangement of fins and would pair well with a slocket.

They are indeed very light. I doubt these will cool very well though.

Btw, these 'heat sinks' can be taken apart, those fins are not a single mass but it is kinda folded together and it will come apart if you try to disassemble it so be careful when trying to take it apart 😜

An interesting design for sure.

A couple of Molex coolers were reviewed here:
http://www.thg.ru/cpu/20010521/cooler-20.html
and here:
http://www.thg.ru/cpu/20010521/cooler-21.html
The larger one in the first link scored ok, the smaller ones less so.

Oh ho! There is a copper slug there too? Sneaky.

That looks an awful lot like the heatsink in my Deskpro EN SFF - see Ancient Electronics' photos https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/2014 … ll-form-factor/