Mac Pro Issue: Apple's Statement and Thermal Paste as the Potential Suspect

In a interview to Macworld, Apple spokesman Bill Evans announced that: “We have not found anything that supports this claim, but continue to investigate it for the customer”
If one starts analyzing Apple’s statement, it does not dismiss reports, as Apple can not really claim that the chemical analysis was not performed according to state of the art conditions (ISO certified-lab), but Apple can indeed say without necessarily implying doubts from customers that it did find any evidence to confirm the claim. For sure, Apple will immediately conduct further analysis on its side to track down any similar cases. We had reports indicating that from both EU and US origins, indicating that it might involve a secondary elements, and not necessarily a component, and currently it seems that the thermal paste might be the source of such issue. Indeed, some users reported to have solved the problem by either making the computer running full CPU load for couple of days, or by changing the thermal paste.

If some of you want to try this procedure, there is nothing complicated, and it has been described in details in one of our article for the first generation of Mac Pro (the only potentially affected models): Upgrading CPUs of a Mac Pro to Quad Core Xeons