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white stuff on cpu pins
- Thread starter Titanos
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Thermal paste?
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Clean it with Rubbing Alchol
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Take a picture?
look anything like that??
look anything like that??
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||Console|| said:
Yup and an old toothbrush will work wonders.
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imposter said:Take a picture?
look anything like that??
broken link
this is the best pic i could take with my cam phone sorry
the white stuff above the green arrows. its not thermal paste (at least i dont think) all i know is that its crusty (lol) and my x2 5200+ does not work now
i am doing an RMA tho AMD right now, but they said if they figure out the cause to be from user error then they wont replace it
ill try rubbing alcohol tonight, what about contact cleaner? would that work the same? and if i use rubbing alcohol does it matter which kind? rubbing alcohol is rubbing alcohol right?
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Use Isopropyl (rubbing alcohol) and wind (canned air or blow on it). Brushing on the pin side of a CPU seems risky to me. Really an odd place for thermal paste.
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Use a high % like 90% Isopropyl alcohol, cause it cleans better than 70%.
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condensation from your chilled water might have caused it . Use dieelctric grease
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yeah, if you have subambient cooling (as your sig says you do) you probably got condensation in there and that's what the white stuff is.
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well cleaning it didnt work well ill send it to AMD and hopefully they will send me a new one 
but if it condensation, why just the center?
so now if they dont replace my 5200+ should i...
A) Get a new 5200+ with dielectric grease?
B) get a 6000+ with dielectric grease?
C) get a X2 4400+ or X24600+ with dielectric grease and o/c it?
D) stick with my 2800+ Sempron and wait for Phenom?
E) get a 6600 C2D and new MB and dielectric grease?
well ill send it to AMD and hopefully they will send me a new one but if it condensation, why just the center?
so now if they dont replace my 5200+ should i...
A) Get a new 5200+ with dielectric grease?
B) get a 6000+ with dielectric grease?
C) get a X2 4400+ or X24600+ with dielectric grease and o/c it?
D) stick with my 2800+ Sempron and wait for Phenom?
E) get a 6600 C2D and new MB and dielectric grease?
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Titanos said:well cleaning it didnt work
but if it condensation, why just the center?
so now if they dont replace my 5200+ should i...
A) Get a new 5200+ with dielectric grease?
B) get a 6000+ with dielectric grease?
C) get a X2 4400+ or X24600+ with dielectric grease and o/c it?
D) stick with my 2800+ Sempron and wait for Phenom?
E) get a 6600 C2D and new MB and dielectric grease?
E) get a 6600 C2D and new MB and dielectric grease?
I suppose you could try and wait for phenom. I haven't heard much and don't know how it'll stack up to Intel. But you can get a decent overclocking C2D setup for fairly cheap.
EDIT: and you might want to consider some decent insulating to avoid any other damage from condensation. (in addition to dielectric grease)
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Either that or you love it that bit too much
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thideras said:Can't believe you just said that, lol!!
Anyway, I second moving on to a 6600...
the following is a convo between thideras and i on aim.
ShaH SmerDis: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=517048
ShaH SmerDis: Lmao
ShaH SmerDis: last post
thideras: LOL
thideras: cant believe he said that
ShaH SmerDis: Ill give it a day, if no mod has edited it, ill comment it lol
thideras: too late...
DOH
cancel that, no clue on on to the strikethrough so i go with getting E6600.
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