yea it totally sucks when they plop on weigh too much thermal compound, i almost fucked my quad-core up because i didn't realized that the heat sink came with the compound already on it... So i buy my own and put it on the processor then put the head sink on, i felt that something wasn't normal so took the heatsink off and was like FUCK theres double the compound... Too much compound is very bad, because it defeats the purpose of thermal compound.