hi all

update on the question

5 months later and no issues at all with no thermal paste on cpu

Baoran wrote:

This thread made me curious. My 100Mhz and 120Mhz pentium processors have never had their heatsink removed from the cpu, so that made me wonder. Did pentiums come originally with some sort of thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink in prebuilt systems?

Back in 1996, my parents bought a Pentium-133. The heatsink with fan, had a layer of some sort of rubber on it.

Tetrium wrote:

Back then, I found that many of these OEM systems did use some kind of tin foil-like stuff between the heatsink and the CPU.

This?
I think this heatsink is from a SS7 system. Might even have come from a K6-2 300/350 or something like that.

On my p133 i applied thermal paste just for peace of mind

I suppose you could use lead as a gap filler. Not RoHS, though.

brostenen wrote:

This? I think this heatsink is from a SS7 system. Might even have come from a K6-2 300/350 or something like that. […]
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Tetrium wrote:

Back then, I found that many of these OEM systems did use some kind of tin foil-like stuff between the heatsink and the CPU.

This?
I think this heatsink is from a SS7 system. Might even have come from a K6-2 300/350 or something like that.

TinFoilHeatsink.jpg

Yes, seems to be such a tin foil-like thingy.

I scrape them off with an old telephone card or old bank card or credit card..as long as it's plastic (to prevent scratching the heatsink).