how do you cleanup thermal grease?

[Nosferatu]

I got arctic silver smeared on the chip and want to clean it up. what do you use to clean it up with?

 

[vfrjim]

Rubbing Alchohol works for me.

Jim

 

[dowxp]

alcohol 1st guess, but don't come at me when it screws up the cpu.

 

[GaryTcs]

Alchohol works fine, and doesn't mess up the CPU. Wipe it off first with a dry cloth, or you'll have it smeared all over the place.

 

[crash2much]

Alcohol make everything seem better.... or so my counseler says

 

[spamboy]

use a razor blade to "slice" off as much as possible then rubbing alcohol for the leftover residue.

 

[Wingznut]

What kind of cpu?

 

[snow patrol]

I use guitar string cleaner.

 

[Nosferatu]

thanks for the responses. alcohol seems to have gotten most of it off. oh the cpu is a duron 700. 😀

 

[Poof]

If you want all of it off, try some acetone (polish remover), then finish up with the alcohol...

 

[shanegot]

Pour some gasoline on top of the cpu and light it on fire. Let it burn untill all of the gas is burnt off and all of the thermal grease will be gone. This is how we do it at Dell.

 

[snow patrol]

lol 😀

 

[Nosferatu]

Dude

I lit it like you said but it left burn marks on the chip. I was wondering if that would affect the bridges at all...

 

[Mean MrMustard]

whats so funny I just screwed up my CPU!!

 

[rmzalbar]

For grease/paste, denatured alcohol (ethanol 100%) available in the paint section of any hardware store

For phase-change material i.e. "bubblegum" pads use goof-off, wd-40 or kerosene, then follow up with the alcohol to remove the petroleum distillates you just used.

Alcohol evaporates completely in seconds and leaves no residue.