Quote Originally Posted by auminer View Post
I wonder what that Alpha (gold one in OP with the threaded posts on it) is worth? I'm guessing those posts are for more effective heat transfer to the heatsink?
Not sure what it's worth but those posts attached the heatsink yep. I once had about a dozen of those in old HP Unix boxes. The CPU unit was rather large, and attached to the main board into large gold pins. Each board had two