I bought this P4 3.4 Ghz cpu off a guy in another forum. He described as a pull from a fileserver and said it was in perfect working order. He was only asking $50 and I only had a 2.8Ghz P4, so I thought I was getting a helluva good upgrade. Anyway, I bought the cpu and opened it today to find the bottom covered in thermal compound. Its on the pins and there is no way to clean it off without damaging the cpu that I'm aware of. The guy claims that the cpu is fine and he always squirts thermal compound in the pin holes on the MB incase watercooling is to be used? I have no experience with watercooling, so I have no idea if he's feeding me a load. It doesn't look too logical from what I see. Please look at the pics and tell me if this guy is full of it. Should I risk using this cpu in a new MB? Thanks in advance...
