Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc?

From	"Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.intel
Subject	Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc?
Date	2014-02-11 18:12 -0500
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"Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote in message 
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> It's a looong time since I bought an Intel CPU. I just ordered a CPU and 
> mobo, and now I'm wondering whether I should have ordered heat sink 
> compound/thermal grease as well.
>
> Perce

Yes, boxed Intel CPUs packaged with fan/heatsinks have thermal grease 
pre-applied to the base of the heatsink.

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Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc? "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2014-02-11 18:01 -0500
  Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc? "Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> - 2014-02-11 18:12 -0500
  Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc? Ghostrider <-00-@fitron.142> - 2014-02-11 15:43 -0800
  Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease, etc? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2014-02-11 18:50 -0600
  Re: Do Boxed Intel CPUs come with heat sink compound/thermal grease,etc? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2014-02-14 10:18 -0500

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