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Where to buy slot 1 coolers?

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stultus

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One of my work's "dead" computers is a dual p3-600. The fans make a terrible grinding noise when powered up, and don't spin smoothly, etc. Who still sells slot 1 SECC2 coolers?
 
I usually replace the fans without replacing / removing the cooler itself, but look at Cooler Guys or 1 Cool PC if you want to replace the whole thing. They have just the fans, too. They are probably either 40 or 50 mm by 10 mm. A ruler with a mm scale will answer that. The fans just screw onto the heat sink.

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The current HSFs are globalwin models. The fans clamp right to the HS, so I'm not sure an off-the-shelf fan (which would admittedly be a lot cheaper) will work. I'll look around though, and see if I could jury-rig something.

EDIT: This is what's currently on the processors. Or something very similar, since this picture shows screws, and what I have has the fans flipping to the heatsink.
 
I'm thinking about getting some bare 60mm fans and ziptie-ing then around the heatsink. Slightly ghetto, but a fraction of the cost and just as effective. Comments?
 
You could do that. If you pull the tie tight enough, I don't think anyone would be the wiser. I had a roommate that hung a fan over his processor by the mid-bar in his case from one of the expansion slot covers and it worked surprisingly well. How do you mean zip tie around the heatsink now that I think of it? Do you mean around the whole heatsink/processor length wise? I can't see it working the other way. IIRC those use a wierd clip system that attaches pretty close to the processor instead of at the ends. Perhaps you could run zip ties through those holes
 
You could also get these: link That's a very good heatsink and fits on the dual-P3 boards I'm aware of. You may have to lean a capacitor or two away from the rear of the CPU to allow the spring-clip to slide into place. The fans are ball-bearing fans and are prewired to take just one header.
 
I was thinking lengthwise, yes. Not sure how it'll work with the retention mechanism.

Using a couple of fans, I don't imagine it'll be over $5 (there's a swap meet this morning where I plan to get some goodies). Buying two new HSFs will cost me a minimum of $10 ea + shipping that I've found online. The previous post with the $18 idea would cost twice as much as that. This is just a dual p3-600 that I'm not even sure will work when I put a new vid card into it, so I don't want to drop too much money into it at this point when I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it.
 
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