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Most socket a/370 Heatsinks are interchangeable right?

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I bought a old PIII off Ebay not knowing it did not come with a HSF Unit but I have a stock AMD cooler left from an upgrade can I use that without damageing my CPU?
 
just make sure that one the chip OR the HSF has the little pads on them. if they both have it, itll double stack them and youll burn up your chip.

otherwise, you should be fine.
 
You should have no trouble running a Socket A heatsink on a PIII socket processor. If it was the other way around, you might run into a problem. Some of the PIII heatsinks would crush Socket A AMD cores by putting too much pressure on them.

 
Yes, it'll work. In fact, my dual-P3 board has two AXP heatsinks on it: a stock Barton cooler (trimmed down to fit around capacitors), and a Thermaltake TR2-M2. Both work beautifully, better than the stock P3 cooler did.

Lithium726, I don't think P3's had the spacers on them- just AXP's.
 
nah, it was the early PIII HSF's now that i think of it... i know Kyle blew a Tbird up like that.

he mounted a PIII HSF with teh spacers on it onto a 1ghz Tbird (when they were brand new) and since they were double stacked at that point, the Tbird fried up.
 
It's a PIII 866MHZ I guess I should just get the right HSF unit as the AMD one has alittle spacer thing Thanks
 
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