Cleaning solution, for new watercooling!

[AlexCom]

Hello community!

 

I want to start building the watercooling today, with your permission, hehe.

 

I didn`t find isopropyl alcohol, and before ordering some off the internet(that may take a while especially in this period).

 

Since I was little I`ve been using regular sanitary alcohol(the one you can buy at the farmacy) to clean the paste off the CPU, without the knowledge that isopropyl alcohol is better. But now, I need to clean paste off the GPU blocks and would like to know if this damages the parts or if I can go ahead? I was about to put everything on hold and wait, but decided to ask you guys first

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Alex

[Maxwit44]

Hello community!

 

I want to start building the watercooling today, with your permission, hehe.

 

I didn`t find isopropyl alcohol, and before ordering some off the internet(that may take a while especially in this period).

 

Since I was little I`ve been using regular sanitary alcohol(the one you can buy at the farmacy) to clean the paste off the CPU, without the knowledge that isopropyl alcohol is better. But now, I need to clean paste off the GPU blocks and would like to know if this damages the parts or if I can go ahead? I was about to put everything on hold and wait, but decided to ask you guys first

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Alex

 

 

To tell you the truth, I've used it once. thats it. After that, I just used paper towel to wipe thermal grease off, and I've never had an issue with the tissue.

[JaSoN_XzIoN]

Hello community!

I want to start building the watercooling today, with your permission, hehe.

I didn`t find isopropyl alcohol, and before ordering some off the internet(that may take a while especially in this period).

Since I was little I`ve been using regular sanitary alcohol(the one you can buy at the farmacy) to clean the paste off the CPU, without the knowledge that isopropyl alcohol is better. But now, I need to clean paste off the GPU blocks and would like to know if this damages the parts or if I can go ahead? I was about to put everything on hold and wait, but decided to ask you guys first

Thanks a lot,

Alex

I've been using pharmaceutical alcohol (97% I think) for a while now and haven't had any problems yet. Even used it to clean out a laptop that had beer spilled over the keyboard and it cleaned the parts out nicely, only directly below the keyboard a faint smell of beer left

[AlexCom]

Thank you all for the nice replies! I will think about it.

 

I read that my alcohol here has 70%, so that is no good, I`ll go tomorrow to find some over 95% ones, maybe use that.

 

Thanks and take care,

 

Alex