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i have a coppermien pentium 3
Wow... still looking for it.... crazy.
In any case, I had an Alpha Slot-A cooler back in the day... sounded like a vacuum cleaner on steroids.. or maybe meth.
A few years ago I got some Slot-A setups that were being thrown out. Instead of using the super-crappy old style coolers I decided to mod a stock S939 Opteron low profile heatpipe cooler to mount on the heatspreader plate on one of those CPUs. It is super quiet and keeps the CPU super cool.
After doing that, I came to the conclusion that those old hunk of metal coolers were trash. Thin-fin and heatpipes is where it is at.
The third one from the left is about where I was at 10-15 years ago. Cool that you still have it laying around!I was surprised at how many slot heatsinks I still had down there.... not the one you are looking for though
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Free bump. Have you thought about checking old hardware/gamer sites like Vogons for this gear?
vogons.org is mostly centered around running old games (the acronym is a nod to Douglas Adams, but also stands for Very Old Games On New Systems), and a lot of them maintain older PCs to that end. It's worth a shot.
A while back the YouTuber LGR had a special on a warehouse full of ancient hardware in Dallas, called Computer Reset. It turns out that it's like twenty minutes from my house - wish I'd known about it years earlier. Over the last year and change the place has been progressively cleaned up bit by bit to make it safe to enter and peruse its contents. At some point I will visit it; when I do, I'll keep my eyes peeled for Slot 1/Slot A coolers for you.
I remain surprised they were able to get away with using the name "3DFX Cool" if they weren't officially licensed by 3Dfx...