"new" boxed celeron- heatsink missing thermal material - help

[Zeph]

They just sent me my "boxed" Celeron 633. However, the metal heatsink does not have any thermal pad on it. Could this be right? I think someone was screwing with it...anyhow, I'm guessing I shouldn't use this heatsink as is...can I buy a "pad" for the sink or use some other material I might have around the house. Mabye some heatsinks come without a pad...I'm not sure.

Don't order from EDGE MICRO!!

thanks,

 

[chemhaqr]

<< They just sent me my "boxed" Celeron 633. However, the metal heatsink does not have any thermal pad on it. Could this be right? I think someone was screwing with it...anyhow, I'm guessing I shouldn't use this heatsink as is...can I buy a "pad" for the sink or use some other material I might have around the house. Mabye some heatsinks come without a pad...I'm not sure.

Don't order from EDGE MICRO!!

thanks, >>



Well if you planned to do any dort of OC'n that is a good thing to have that pad removed. Strnge though that it wasn;t there. Was your package opened before you got it? If it was you may have got something someone else was playing with.

 

[Marine]

Not all heatsinks come with a thermal pad. Many think this is a good thing as a majority of overclockers scrape the pads off and use a more thermal conductive interface between HS and CPU. Is your HS scratched where the pad might have been? If not, you may have fortunately received a new HSF and all you need is some thermal compound like Arctic Silver. I wouldn't panic or dis your supplier until you verify you've been cheated. Use a good heat transfer compound and you'll be miles ahead in terms of transferring heat from your cpu core to the heat sink than you would be using a manufacturers applied thermal pad.

 

[AkumaX]

actually, id love it if all heatsinks came w/o the thermal pad.. saves me less time cleaning/scraping all that crap off anyway