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Originally Posted by bbarnette
You might try this. Pull the heatsinks off the processors and clean ALL the thermal compund off the processors and heatsinks with some rubbing alcohol. After doing this apply a small amount of thermal paste, I recommend Arctic Silver, to each processor and replace the heatsink. Apple uses entirely too much compound and this oozes out to the surround area and may cause the smell you are all experiencing. I have a 2.66 quad core mac pro and I have never experienced this smell. Hope this helps!
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You are correct Sir.
The Mac tech was just here and he took out the heat sinks and cleaned off the seal compound with alcohol (per your recommendation) resealed with Arctic Silver. Now it's running to burn off any residual odor.
The smell was definitely coming from the compound because the new heat sink he brought as a replacement had the same odor while it was still in the box. We didn't even use it.