Is it necessary to use a fibre cloth to clean old thermal paste from a gpu

[Jaok]

Would regular tissues work as well?

[Skiiwee29]

I use paper towel personally. Regular tissues are to soft and brittle and likely would leave fibers. Need something fairly robust. 

[Jaok]

3 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I use paper towel personally. Regular tissues are to soft and brittle and likely would leave fibers. Need something fairly robust. 

I'm going to use a paper towel then. Thanks

[circeseye]

yea ive always used a paper towel also

then qtips to clean up any that got pushed off the cpu

 

[Jaok]

2 minutes ago, circeseye said:

yea ive always used a paper towel also

then qtips to clean up any that got pushed off the cpu

 

What do you mean by "clean up any that got pushed off the cpu"?

[circeseye]

sometimes paste gets pushed off the cpu onto the board..thats when i use a qtip

[Jaok]

1 minute ago, circeseye said:

sometimes paste gets pushed off the cpu onto the board..thats when i use a qtip

Thank you

[Nicnac]

you can use a wet coffee filter. It won't leave any fibres