Stock heatsink was used in this guide as shown with thermal pad shown also, As far as the voiding of warranties yes ...using anything other then the thermal pad included with the stock heatsink according to AMD will void the warranty, because of this simple reason, to many people were just slopping the thermal paste on the cpu's by lack of knowledge, and frying them, they are less worried about the 64 bit chips because of the covering over the core.
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Originally Posted by Pac-Man
thermal paste comes w/the stock heatsink/fan usually when a retail CPU is purchased. But the OEM CPUs are just the CPU itself. the HSF should have it's own thermal paste seperately in the package, and if not, then one can buy some.
and why would it void the warranty? as far as i know, warranty is only voided when OCing occurs.
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