I've cleaned the pins of my 6900k with isopropanol

[Melodist]

When I received my i7 6900k cpu, upon first inspection, I realised that a few pins were covered in thermal paste. After I found the video linked at the bottom of this post, I started cleaning the cpu pins with 99.9 % isopropanol and cotton sticks.

 

My question now is: have I porentially damaged the cpu or was this a reasonable and safe / approved thing to do?

 

I've already tried the cpu in my X99-A Asus motherboard and it works.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhyMdkOUtV4

[jj9987]

If it works, I don't see an issue.

[Godlygamer23]

Isopropyl alcohol is safe to use on electronics for the most part. One exception I can think of is if you have conformal coating on some of the components as it will eat through it, but that's pretty uncommon for consumer electronics. 

 

Another thing is I help build military electronics, and we use isopropyl alcohol very heavily and our stuff works just fine.

[NinjaJc01]

14 minutes ago, Melodist said:

When I received my i7 6900k cpu, upon first inspection, I realised that a few pins were covered in thermal paste. After I found the video linked at the bottom of this post, I started cleaning the cpu pins with 99.9 % isopropanol and cotton sticks.

 

My question now is: have I porentially damaged the cpu or was this a reasonable and safe / approved thing to do?

 

I've already tried the cpu in my X99-A Asus motherboard and it works.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhyMdkOUtV4

Yeah, that's the way you're meant to do it.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

I have cleaned my 4790k with my shirt, you should be fine 

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

I have cleaned my 4790k with my shirt, you should be fine 

That's truly horrifying.

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

i cleaned my 6700k with some special Rubbing alcohol and then clean it with another substance cant remeber then name off the top of my head and ive never had a problem but i use some sort of brown paper to rub it all off and shine it again cant remember the name 

[Railgun]

For future reference, you should probably create this type of thread BEFORE you do what you are making the thread abut, lol.

[Melodist]

 

4 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Isopropyl alcohol is safe to use on electronics for the most part. One exception I can think of is if you have conformal coating on some of the components as it will eat through it, but that's pretty uncommon for consumer electronics. 

 

Another thing is I help build military electronics, and we use isopropyl alcohol very heavily and our stuff works just fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I tought that if I were going to rub it off with anything, it would be the purest alcohol I could possibly get, which in that case is isopropanol.

 

4 hours ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

I have cleaned my 4790k with my shirt, you should be fine 

 

Jesus, that's sloppy but funny  Does it still work?

 

4 hours ago, Xx_MadJack_xX said:

i cleaned my 6700k with some special Rubbing alcohol and then clean it with another substance cant remeber then name off the top of my head and ive never had a problem but i use some sort of brown paper to rub it all off and shine it again cant remember the name 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rubbing alcohol was probably isopropanol as well.

 

4 hours ago, Railgun said:

For future reference, you should probably create this type of thread BEFORE you do what you are making the thread abut, lol.

 

Haha yeah, it's almost comedic