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FYI for anyone running mb with only parallel interface, I purchased 3 of these on ebay and got them to work with sata hdd and CD. Haven't tried sata ssd yet but no reason it wouldnt work. https://www.ebay.com/itm/374644711281

slight price drop

Got off a batch auction but I have no need for it. New in orange tray no retail box. $95 plus shipping. I'm in S. Cal if someone wish to pick it up. i just llaced it on ebay lastnight so i think itvcounts as sold?

You're right. 1 shop direct but shipped out via amazon. They are a pretty highly rated seller.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YNHBVGQ/ The tactile is sold by Amazon and the Linear by 3rd party. $40 shipped for this is fire so get it while it last.

Super appreciate the effort!

I got the Abit KT7A and the 3Dfx off here from the same seller. The KT7A is the KT133 chipset. Seems like a good fit as the KT133 wasn't released long after the 5500.. I think KT266 chipset with DDR also be a decent fit. I have one running 1ghz athlon...coin toss which one to use for the...

So true. My Cyrix PR200MX despite being critiqued as a hottest socket 7 chip at the time consumed a less than 30 watts. That 1.4Ghz Thunderbird is at a whopping 72 watts ....... which is considered Laptop/mobile nowadays.

I went through several back in the days. I had one of those coolermaster bricks, tried the gold orb, and finally one with cooper contact as cooper was all the rave back then.

The tip of the clip from one end of the socket to the tip of the other clip is 5.5 cm. Perpendicular to that the maximum width is 7 cm before you hit capacitors and DIMM space. After some more reading, the old socket 7 and Socket A uses the same clip, but the socket 7 heatsinks were typically...

This thread is flooding back nice memories! I was looking for the Golden Orb for a bit but then remember what a horrible time I had clipping or unclipping that thing. Think I recall later versions of it fixed the installation issue. I have one of those generic looking coolermaster bricks on...

Do you think that heatsink would be sufficient for. 1.4ghz Thunderbird?

I much appreciate education and history lesson I'm getting, thank you!

That makes sense. I didn't even know there were different SATAs! So I 2003 mb would be sata 1.... I'm reading that in theory they should all be compatible but I guess sata 1 sometimes worse than ide!

DVD drive powers up. Interesting, if I unplug the sata HD the sata DVD now shows up in the boot sequence but won't get past the initial post. Maybe there's something wrong with the onboard SATA controller? The CAPs on the MB mostly looks good. a few of the ones around the DDR DIMMs are...