I'm currently trying to salvage a P4 Northwood. Under some advisement of some friends I bought the clean kit from Arctic Silver. (Artic Clean). It works pretty good. Yeah I know going with alchohol would have been cheaper but for 5 bucks for the kit I can't complain.
Anyway, there is a crevice (1 mm hole) in the corner of the Northwood. Its pretty much a tell tale that its an intel processor. Well with the previous heatsink (stock intel thermal pad) this hole is now jam packed with thermal pad material.
1. First off, do i need to clean this out?
2. If so how do I do it without damaging the chip?
3. Is it a problem if I get some cleaner on the green (base) portion with which the cpu rests on? Its all cleaned up and dry now.
If someone can answer these 3 questions I'd greatly appreciate it. This is my first major upgrade (replacing a stock mobo). Thanks in advance.
Anyway, there is a crevice (1 mm hole) in the corner of the Northwood. Its pretty much a tell tale that its an intel processor. Well with the previous heatsink (stock intel thermal pad) this hole is now jam packed with thermal pad material.
1. First off, do i need to clean this out?
2. If so how do I do it without damaging the chip?
3. Is it a problem if I get some cleaner on the green (base) portion with which the cpu rests on? Its all cleaned up and dry now.
If someone can answer these 3 questions I'd greatly appreciate it. This is my first major upgrade (replacing a stock mobo). Thanks in advance.
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