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retail Intel socket 370 heatsinks how to tell apart?

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First post, by pentiumspeed

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How can I tell apart that is for pentium III bare die and for ones with IHS (copper square)?

One have thick middle, while another one is completely flat with one step to clear the socket's cam lever housing.

I'm specifically about retail intel socket 370 heatsinks. Additionally, photos is best thing to have.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Repo Man11

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I've used the same heatsinks on Coppermine and Tualatin CPUs as well as on Socket 7 and Socket A/462. I used a stock Intel Socket 370 cooler on the Tualatin with the interposer for use on Coppermine motherboards; in that case I had to bend the clip for the extra stack height, but it works fine. Hard to imagine a stock cooler that would work on so many different CPUs and sockets now.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Kruton 9000

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2026-06-20, 01:37:

Hard to imagine a stock cooler that would work on so many different CPUs and sockets now.

Sockets 1156/1155/1150/1151v1/1151v2/1200? From 2009 to 2021.
And I think that massive radiators will not fit into every board with socket 7 due to the interfering near socket capacitors.

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