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So my old pc (another one not the dell that I just made a post in troubleshoot section about ( pls help) ) this one is a LGA775 PC that I personally killed with viruses as a kid. And now that Im taking them all apart out of curiosity I found that the CPU's thermal paste has dried. How do I remove it?

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1 minute ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

So my old pc (another one not the dell that I just made a post in troubleshoot section about ( pls help) ) this one is a LGA775 PC that I personally killed with viruses as a kid. And now that Im taking them all apart out of curiosity I found that the CPU's thermal paste has dried. How do I remove it?

Alcohol wipes works for me.

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4 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Alcohol wipes works for me.

Normally works really well just might take some time and effort

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5 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Alcohol wipes works for me.

70% or more concentration is recommended

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Just now, unholyprfection said:

Normally works really well just might take some time and effort

I found it quite fast.

 

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3 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

I found it quite fast.

 

It can be. All depends how long the compound has been there and what type it was.

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1 minute ago, unholyprfection said:

It can be. All depends how long the compound has been there and what type it was.

Fite me m8

5 minutes ago, MrOutlawTV said:

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It's interesting to learn other ways of doing stuff. How much washing powder/ capsules should I use?

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Arctic silver thermal compound remover is the bees knees. But it is expensive.

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Fite me m8

It's interesting to learn other ways of doing stuff. How much washing powder/ capsules should I use?

Lets go. My 1080 is warmed up and ready to max out the csgo frames cus u no i got dem fliks m8 :P

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7 minutes ago, MrOutlawTV said:

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I prefigure just putting the whole motherboard with the CPU in the dish washer  and running it on the pots and pans setting. 

 

I mean who has time to take a coffee filter or paper towel with a bit of  Isopropyl alcohol to clean thermal past  

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1 minute ago, unholyprfection said:

Lets go. My 1080 is warmed up and ready to max out the csgo frames cus u no i got dem fliks m8 :P

Ohh m8 gt redy 2 gt fkd bruu

Noscoping 640 degreeees biatch...

Wanna tutch my Quadru crd?

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Just now, Factory OC said:

Ohh m8 gt redy 2 gt fkd bruu

Noscoping 640 degreeees biatch...

Wanna tutch my Quadru crd?

Quadru crd? My Quantum Computer got that beat. and 640 degrees, I was doing 1280's before I was even conceived m8
gt rkt scrandy

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1 minute ago, ELSknutson said:

I prefigure just putting the whole motherboard with the CPU in the dish washer  and running it on the pots and pans setting. 

 

I mean who has time to take a coffee filter or paper towel with a bit of  Isopropyl alcohol to clean thermal past  

Just break out the dremel, and cut the tops off of everything. No need to clean those metal shavings after either, those will increase the speed of your computer.

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Just now, unholyprfection said:

Quadru crd? My Quantum Computer got that beat. and 640 degrees, I was doing 1280's before I was even conceived m8
gt rkt scrandy

Quantum? Bru, ya runing CS:GO at low? Try duing 2560 degreas no scope eies closud.

gt srekt nuub

 

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Just now, Factory OC said:

Quantum? Bru, ya runing CS:GO at low? Try duing 2560 degreas no scope eies closud.

gt srekt nuub

 

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1 minute ago, unholyprfection said:

bra I know your moves before you make them #Illuminati #lordGaben

I'm not even gonna fite anymore, need to take a crap...

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I usually use a high-pressure water hose. Cleans everything right off and gets rid of the dust too!

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Just now, Factory OC said:

I'm not even gonna fite anymore, need to take a crap...

Want to play battle $hits?

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5 minutes ago, DaMainMan said:

I usually use a high-pressure water hose. Cleans everything right off and gets rid of the dust too!

I think I'll just take the washing machine route.

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I use isopropyl alcohol on some paper towel.  You can use alcohol wipes (they're basically isopropyl alcohol at 70%+ purity, distilled water and perfume) or lcd screen cleaning solutions (they're also mainly isopropyl alcohol plus some antistatic/dust repellant substance in very low amount and water and perfume)

 

Sanitary alcohol also works, but make sure it evaporates completely before you put the heatsink back or apply paste.  Relatively high alcohol vodka also works.

 

Acetone also works, as will other solvents (lighter fluid, gasoline etc)

 

 

 

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43 minutes ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

So my old pc (another one not the dell that I just made a post in troubleshoot section about ( pls help) ) this one is a LGA775 PC that I personally killed with viruses as a kid. And now that Im taking them all apart out of curiosity I found that the CPU's thermal paste has dried. How do I remove it?

A video is up on float plane looking at all the different things you can use. I think it will be up on youtube in a day or 2

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Just now, unholyprfection said:

A video is up on float plane looking at all the different things you can use. I think it will be up on youtube in a day or 2

Wait floatplane donators get early access? 

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