Intel Core i3-6100 bundle - heat sink question

[REMbranded2]

I bought one of these and was told that the heat sink had plastic strips that I was supposed to have removed before mounting it to the processor.

That is, the bundled heat sink came with thermal grease that was protected by plastic strips. There were no directions included that gave me any indication of this.

Is this true? I already mounted it and have run it for several hours. This is what I bought:

Newegg Link

I hate to think that I melted plastic between the processor and the heat sink.

Can anyone verify this?

Thank you in advance.

 

[chemmajorp53]

If it's not immediately overheating, then you didn't. It's a very large piece of plastic I don't see how anyone could possibly make that mistake

 

[REMbranded2]

Well the fellow that told me said that each of the three thermal grease stripes had a small piece of plastic over them. I looked at the bottom before affixing it. I've seen nothing in any formal directions about this.

I'm not used to this motherboard and processor. I installed Win10 and did all the updates and I could hear the fan kicking into high speed pretty often. I mentioned the fan speed to him and he told me that there were plastic strips to keep the grease from smearing. It makes sense, as there wasn't anything else to protect it.

I did order some thermal grease and was planning to seeing if it's stuck together, or if I can remove the heat sink, clean the surfaces and rest easy.

 

[REMbranded2]

Is there a software utility that I can install to watch the temperature?

 

[chemmajorp53]

Out of all the intel stock heatsinks i've had, the only clear plastic was the heatsink clamshell in the box and the small clamshell with the processor.

If you want to monitor temps, realtemp works just fine

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-real-temp/

 

[James Mason]

looking at unboxings for the 6100, i'm not see any plastic strips on the heatsink thermal grease.
Like in this video:
https://youtu.be/3xPrd6FBTS0?t=2m40s
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPrd6FBTS0?t=2m40s"][/video]

 

[REMbranded2]

I got a program called CAM and it's showing a steady 26C on a PC that's running, but it's not even connected to the internet. I haven't installed anything other than the device drivers via USB drive. It's running Win10 with most of the apps and spy stuff disabled, as I detest all that stuff.

That seems low at 78.8 degrees F. Could I have done something in putting it together to make it read low?

If not I must be good. Thank you all very much! The video is encouraging that all is well.