libby mentioned to me that he has experience sorting out older sealed liquid coolers, not sure he's posted about his method though. Think it was just basically clean out the bad stuff, put good stuff back in. Like going to Mars is like, "First go to space, then set course for Mars" 🤣 there's probably some finer points I'm missing.
For a period cooler, Hyper 212s are still around and have been around since late oughts. edit: urgh need an older one apparently, 775 bracket and support dropped when they made it AM4 compatible a few years back, lot of refs online say it's slill 775 compatible, but maybe only NOS and OG ones are, hard to figure out what you're getting. I guess if it fails to mention later sockets you might be alright, but never know if they just ain't updated their store page in years.
editII: Some ppl are saying to elongate the holes on the 1151/5 bracket and that works, never know if their, your and my value of "works" is equal though.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.