P4 Thermal Material

[jchappj]

Upon opening the box (Retail) of my 1.6A P4 and reading the directions, there is supposed to be an enclosed syringe with thermal interface material. The stuff wasn't there. Did everyone else get it or am I missing something (pun intended)?
Jack

 

[FatBurger]

Is there a pink pad on the bottom of the heatsink? If so, then you're fine.

My P4's manual showed the Sunflower as the HSF, but I got the original style HSF.

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[jchappj]

There is a pad but it's black, 2.75" X 1.75"

 

[FatBurger]

Oh, that's right. I'm an idiot, of course that's what it is.

Just use that, it'll work fine.

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[jchappj]

Cool, thanks for the help Fat!

 

[FatBurger]

No problem

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[elzt]

Does that mean I don't even need to use any additional thermal material? Is it safe to just install the HSF onto P4 CPU without any thermal grease in between? Is it because P4 runs cooler than AMD CPU which the latter requires thermal grease? Thanks for your advice.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

no..
p4's can run quite warm too, but that 'pad' is thermal phaze change material.

upon first heating it melts, forming a good contact between heatsink and cpu.

you really dont need thermal grease unless you plan on overclocking.

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