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CPU heatsink w/fan, $1.00 each

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OneStepAhead

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CPU heatsink w/fan, $1.00 each

This is the Directron "deal of the day" for Friday, February 22, and will be good through 1 PM CST Saturday (or maybe Monday, if they don't work weekends.)

Regular $5, special one day price $1. Minimum order $10 plus reasonable shipping. (Add some cheap mice from another post in this forum.)

$1 Heatsink & Fan

This fan will work on Socket 7 Pentium, Socket 7 Pentium MMX, and Celeron PPGA Socket 370 CPUs... not much demand for these nowdays. However, for this price you can throw away the heat sink and use the fans for other things. I have used this sort of fan in a fan-less Celeron system... I just used cable ties to hang the fan from a cable bundle so it blew on the heat sink. I have also used them to cool hot hard drives.

The main drwaback is that they come with a three-pin motherboard fan connector. They will sell you an adapter for $4 -- FOUR TIMES the price of the fan. Or, you can just rig one from a power supply extention or Y-connector.
 
Actually, toshiba3020, not "Taken from fat wallet" but, rather, posted both there and here by me.

Still at $1 each, as of 6:00 PM Saturday, which implies that the price will be good through the weekend.
 
The web site copy doesn't seem to mention that this cooler is a ball bearing fan, so it is very likely a sleeve bearing unit, which I understand isn't quite as durable. Also, the shipping seems a smidge high (and isn't calculated until you fill out a form with your data, which I always find a tad vexing). For instance, 50 of these fans will run me $18.18 for S&H to California from Texas. Also, I'd be using these fans to fix up old donated computers that my buddies & I in turn send off to a third world country to be used to access medical information on the web (
InfoMed), and very few of the older mobos have 3 pin power connectors, so we'd have to pop another 50 cents a unit for adapters from here.

However this place is hawking 4,400 RPM ball bearing fans for $2 a throw and they offer a volume discount & free shipping at over $100, so I could get 55 units for $1.85 each, or about the same unit price as ordering 50 of the Directron fans & the power adapters.

This place sells a nice looking 6,000 RPM socket seven fan that will supposedly handle an Athlon 650 MHz for $3.49 with $7 S&H for all orders. However they also offer volume discounts:
25 for $2.75, which comes to $75.75 with shipping ($3 per unit).
50 for $2.50, for a total of $132, or $2.64 per cooler.
100 for $2.20 or $227 and $2.27 a throw.

Of course not too many of you would have any use for such a huge pile of socket seven/PPGA fans.
 
Ordered 20 for NB coolers. Awesome shipping, only $7.xx for 20 to chicago. Nice to see a vendor that does not rape on shipping 😀
 
My six came. No indication of ball bearing or not. Nice looking, new.

I have used several similar fans in the past for hard drive cooling. Just threw away the heat sink.

Gotta ask: what does "NB cooler" mean?


 
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