"Phil Pease" wrote in message
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Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+)
or do I need to buy these items?

retail cpu does come with cpu fan heatsink. As thermal paste it does comes
with some paste pre applied. I do recommend removing this (with rubbing
alcohol) and apply acrtic silver 3.

Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various
connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items?

motherboard does come with various connectors IF it is retail

Is a floppy drive necessary?

no a necessity but good to have.

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Phil