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I already tried to clean it wirh articlean and qtips it was bad paste half of it wasn t even solid after months of use only part that was is the outside bits on the pins

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You could lay some alcohol on there and let it soak for a bit - or even use a toothbrush to get rid of it (of course don't use a toothbrush you intend to use in your mouth anymore :P )

Don't put too much pressure on it though. And don't touch the tootbrush on the chip.

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Is it ok for articcleaner to go on it should i put some on the pins ?

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Just now, Bogo Mogo said:

clean top and leave sides as they are now

Are the sides ok like that 

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2 minutes ago, scoopscuz said:

Are the sides ok like that 

if it matters your GPU would be dead a long time ago

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My gpu has be artifacting and acting weird I think it was because of heat 

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Those are not pins, and it also doesn't matter if they get thermal paste on them because the thermal paste is non-conductive.

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Use alcohol and a toothbrush. Cleans up pretty well, safely. But shouldn’t matter that it’s there either. 

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thanks for all responses i just cleaned the gpu die i have no paste so i but some liquid metal on it and now its working perfect getting no more problems with artifacting and dont have to underclock it anymore :D i stressed it for 1 hour with the kombustor and it maxed around 70c

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On 5/13/2019 at 11:39 PM, minibois said:

You could lay some alcohol on there and let it soak for a bit - or even use a toothbrush to get rid of it (of course don't use a toothbrush you intend to use in your mouth anymore :P )

Don't put too much pressure on it though. And don't touch the tootbrush on the chip.

i dont have rubbing alcohol, and its not available near me. can i use whiskey?

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3 hours ago, StatTrakDiamondSword said:

i dont have rubbing alcohol, and its not available near me. can i use whiskey?

Whiskey might work, but other than being a bit wasteful, it might not work great too. The reason alcohol works great, is because typically people use 70%+ alcohol, which means it evaporates quite quickly and leaves little to no residue.

Whiskey of course contains more than just alcohol and water, so might not clean up very well.

 

I'd not recommend using whiskey and would recommend looking for alcohol a bit more instead. Any drug store/pharmacy/chemist/etc. would carry alcohol, 70% and up would work well. You only need very little of it.

 

By the way, the thread you replied to is quite old, we prefer if people make new threads for their questions, instead of re-using older threads.

If you have any further questions about this, please make a new thread in the appropriate section (like Graphics Cards for GPU repasting questions).

 

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