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i bought a new heatsink and it came with thermal paste already on it. i want to put as5 on but i dont know how to get the other stuff off. how do i do this?
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How do i get paste off?
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try some rubbing alcohol
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you can also use acetone
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any alcoholic substance that is above 70% and some toilet paper
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Everclear.
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I used brake clean ONLY ON THE HEATSINK. It works great and leaves no residue.
Good Luck
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Goof off and the tip of an old t-shirt.
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I always use 99% isopropyl alcohol and Q-tips. Just make sure they Q-tips or whatever don't leave behind any strands of cotton or any other material as that would hinder cooling abilities.
TECHNICALLY, you're supposed to use a "lint free" cloth of some kind...
TECHNICALLY, you're supposed to use a "lint free" cloth of some kind...
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I use nail polish remover and a razor until I remove the bulk of the stufff....then ditch the razor in favor of q-tips and and old credit card since the plastic doesnt damage the items
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Iso, but I scrape it with some card board first then polish it with isopropyle .
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Yeah, I hooked up a morphine drip to my RAM and gave my cpu a blood transfusion and now I can run 350fsb on 5-2-2-1.5 timings!!! w00t, I B 1337!!!!11Airpizza said:i use the packets of isopropyl they use to disenfect your skin when you get a shot. I figure if they use it for medical stuff then it should be ok for the computer
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Yer i figured some morphine would make it so the ram couldnt feel those high mhz 
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Any oil-based solvent is a no-no. Lighter fluid, alcohol under 91% or nail polish removers some brake cleaners and such. All you will do is inhibit how well the TIM will perform.
I got this off the AS5 manufacturers site: Never use any oil or petroleum based cleaners (WD-40, citrus oil based grease removers and many automotive degreasers) on the base of a heatsink. The oil, which is engineered to not evaporate, will fill in the microscopic valleys in the metal and significantly reduce the effectiveness of any subsequently applied thermal compound.
Use xylene based products (Goof Off, some carburetor cleaners and many brake cleaners.), mineral spiritsm or high-purity isopropyl alcohol.
If it is cleaning correctly you shouldn't have to scrape or scrub it hardly at all.
I had a thermal pad that was over 4 years of use, on an old HS/CPU and used 91% with a lens cleaning cloth and it just wiped away.
I got this off the AS5 manufacturers site: Never use any oil or petroleum based cleaners (WD-40, citrus oil based grease removers and many automotive degreasers) on the base of a heatsink. The oil, which is engineered to not evaporate, will fill in the microscopic valleys in the metal and significantly reduce the effectiveness of any subsequently applied thermal compound.
Use xylene based products (Goof Off, some carburetor cleaners and many brake cleaners.), mineral spiritsm or high-purity isopropyl alcohol.
If it is cleaning correctly you shouldn't have to scrape or scrub it hardly at all.
I had a thermal pad that was over 4 years of use, on an old HS/CPU and used 91% with a lens cleaning cloth and it just wiped away.
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alphasl said:
Ditto, 90% rubbing alcohol and coffee filters, this is the best way IMHO, and the coffee filters are "lint free" just like the AS webstie recommends.
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