On 6 Nov 2001, at 2:47, Daniel Skilleter wrote:

> Incorrect 99% of Intel Pentium 166MHz came with a sanyo fan glued on top
> with no heat sink, I have had 5 all the same, this was the same as the
> Pentium 133MHz, standard practice then.
>
> Pacpacific Australia
> Wholesale PC's and Periherals Logistics Company

  Intel has, for a long time, amde their CPUs available in two
different forms/packages:  a "retail" form with colourful packaging
and a fan already mounted on the CPU, and a less-exopensive "OEM"
form with plain packaging and no fan.
  In many metropolitan centers in the United States (I'm in Silicon
Valley itself, which may not be typical...), there are PC component
dealers who will sell the OEM version to the public as well as to
small-scale system builders.

  There are also manufacturers who sell fans that may be cheaper
and/or better than the fans Intel supplies already mounted on their
"retail" CPUs...

  In any case, I see no reason to doubt that this fan/heatsink was
clipped to the socket rather than affixed to the CPU originally.  I
suspect that the various "OverDrive" upgrade CPUs offered since 486
days are the only models never offered in "OEM" form, since by
definition their market was 100% retail.

Dave Gillett

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