i'm really hoping he meant without the heatsink on, or got the wrong thread entirely and meant the blades...
but hey, if not, no big deal to grab some fans, eh? ...though come to think of it my usual stores for doing so don't exist in this state... hmm.
I asked Luke, and that was in fact without a heatsink. The original Emeralds that went out to devs apparently didn't have the heatsinks yet.