We'll do almost anything in the name of science.

After popping off the CPU heat sink, we can get a good look at the Core i5 processor.

Our machine is powered by a quad core 2.5 GHz Core i5-2400S CPU with 6 MB of Intel Smart Cache.

Thankfully the CPU and GPU on this machine have proper amounts of thermal paste applied, a happy depature from the gobs applied to the MacBook Pro we recently took apart.