Ordered the screws online... the fan grills guy doesn't have the 40mm size listed any more (it's an eBay thing) but since they're 3D printed I wrote him and asked. I'll dig through some old stuff I have just to be sure, later, as well.

Alas, my planned outing today got screwed up, so that purchase has been pushed back to Friday.

I also don't feel like doing the piece on VIA CPU history. I think I've done it before anyways... tl;dr the design is a modern descendant of the IDT WinChip, which existed in an era when floating-point mathematics weren't necessarily a required thing (hence the need for a Floating Point Unit aka Math Coprocessor, which nowadays is built into the CPU). The IDT WinChip, simply put, was a budget offering in the era of the Pentium I and competitors, for purposes where floating point operations would be encountered in very, very limited circumstances... it could do them, but not very well -- quite poorly, in fact, even worse than Cyrix's offering (!!), which is quite notable considering Cyrix's integrated FPU arguably bankrupted their company. Hence the marketing for the WinChip... but when the bottom fell out of the Super Socket 7 CPU market, the WinChip died with it. VIA, a 'nothing' Taiwanese company making cheap DRAM chips, saw echoes of AMD in the metaphorical (?) tea leaves and snapped up the WinChip IP... (context: AMD was cranking out memory chips before it bought a license from Intel to second-source their CPUs... and then when it became a reasonable force in the marketplace, the lawyers came out... one big stinking nasty lawsuit later, Intel had a pretty decent competitor!)

A pity, however, that all of VIA's work on updating the design has focused on things like power consumption and supporting newer add-on instruction sets and the like... and not putting a better FPU in the thing! The chips hardly use any power, but still do math like a Fifties Guy with a One Arm Bandit adding machine full of gears... one that hasn't seen a proper oil can since the War. Oh, dear...