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Removing Stock Heatsink/Fan

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The Pentium Guy

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Hey,

I'm removing the stock heatsink/fan and getting a Zalman 7000-AlCu version. I heard there would be some "black goo" called TIM which Intel uses as their thermal compound. Without scraping it off, how would I remove this (in prepreation for some Arctic Silver 5)?

-The Pentium Guy
 
I always use denatured alcohol and a q-tip.
You can buy it for about $3-4 a quart in the paint dept of Home Depot or other home improvement stores.

I have a quart I bought last year sometime branded by Klean-Strip.
 
Rubbing alcohol is not as high in purity as most people suggest, but I have used it. I think that the denatured alcohol works much better. A quart should last you a loooong time.

If the TIM is stubborn I usually just put on a few drops of alcohol and use my fingernail. (Usually only run into this when removing an old thermal pad)
 
I have tried using 100 percent Rubbing Alcohol to remoce the pink thermal compound on AMD CPU stock heatsinks and it does nothing. Am I doing something wrong?
 
The last couple times I did it, I disconnected all the drives & case fans(not the cpu fan!) and started the computer and let it warm up for a good while by running a folding program plus others. After it's nice and warm, I finish the disconects and remove the mobo and proceed to remove the hs. It's a hell iof a lot easier when it's warm.
A blow dryer on low works if the system's funked up.
 
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