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Will modern heatsink for Athlon/P4 fit a socket 7?

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DWW

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Well putting together a server which uses an older k6-2 500 CPU and wanted to know if a modern heatsink (those nice, purty copper ones) would fit an old socket 7 style chip.
Mainly because the k6-2 have a heat spreader, or at least a flat surface on it, so I was hoping I could get by with passive cooling or at least a very quiet/reliable fan that doesnt go mach3 RPMs.

Or is it even plausible to do passive cooling, even with a kick-butt copper heatsink on an old k6-2? It has no temperature sensing stuff so I have no clue.

Danke for your help
 
I believe that most Athlon(SocketA ) hs will work, but the P4 hs use that funky clamp thingy. The SocketA hs may have a problem if there are a lot of capacitors or other doo-dads near the cpu socket though, they are larger than SS7 hs.
 
Provided you have a good heatsink, even if you cannot go with pure passive cooling any old pentium fan should suffice
 
Maybe a thermalright SK-800 and all its glory could be enough for it then? I really dont want to use a fan if possible...
 
😉 A speed adjustable fan would allow you to find the sweet spot and would avoid the risk of trying passive solutions with barely a diff in over all noise levels. Also consider Zalman Flower, you may even be able to run that monster passively esp if you have decent case ventilation / airflow.
 
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