What type of cloth do you use to remove artic silver?

[Nocturnal]

I'm looking for a cloth or material that can easily remove artic silver from a heatsink as well as a CPU. Thank you.

 

[Algere]

I use the lint-free kind of cloth & a Q-tip for those tight spaces.

 

[SkiMaskWay]

With this stuff you can complely remove arctic silver 5.

http://www.coolerguys.com/840556003069.html

 

[neoreturns]

Q-tip in alcohol

 

[AnandThenMan]

Tooth brush and dish soap. Washed many CPU's without any problem. They are waterproof. (use dry of course)

 

[C42]

If it is being stubborn, some dissolve it with whatever cloth is available(Only on Heatsink and IHS, don't use this stuff on the pins or anything if you made a mess). It leaves an oily residue so follow up with some alcohol.

 

[Killmenow]

For IHS and heatsinks.....i use a normal dry peice of paper towel to wipe of any thermal paste. I then proceed to clean it with some cotton balls and 99% isopropanol rubbing alcohol (Works wonders). If I have lint free cloths, then i just go ahead and dry it with one of those. For CPU's without IHS' i simply use the cotton and lint free cloths....and of course the rubbing alcohol 🙂

 

[kyparrish]

cotton balls with wife's nail polish remover (with acetone) to remove the bulk of it
q-tip w/ said nail polish remover to get the rest

 

[tr1kstanc3]

cotton pads and q-tips dipped in a little rubbing alcohol (70%).

 

[lsman]

Coffee filter

 

[Daddyjaxx]

Sandpaper.

 

[RussianSensation]

A simple Kleenex.

 

[inveterate]

Steal some Acetone from ur chem lab,, It workz awsome, takes off Arctic silver better than isopropyl

 

[inveterate]

don't use nail polish remover, that sitz got some other additives in it, u need pure acetone

 

[Soulkeeper]

i use my shirt
or an oxy pad

🙂

 

[Glavinsolo]

Steel WOOL

 

[Soulkeeper]

hahahahaha
between this and that thread about the 7.2ghz overclock, i can honestly say i laughed till my eyes watered

 

[jose]

Bounty Paper Towel, "Designer Series"

;p

 

[edjacobson]

I use a medical gauze bandage (the kind you tape over a wound...I had a couple handy and thought they'd leave fewer fine particles than a cotton ball) and a q-tip with 98 (or 99%) alchohol to get most of it off. I then used camera lens tissue (the very fine, papery kind) with just a drop of alcohol to make sure I wasn't leaving any lint or particles, and then blew it off with a camera lens blower.

 

[cornholio2]

I use my white boxer brief with the nicotine down under mate.

 

[MrK6]

Lol, wow... Yah, coffee filters work well, lens cleaning paper is good too, or go and buy lint-free glasses cleaning cloth. I get them for 40 cents a piece and cut them into squares for use. 91% Isoprohyl alcohol is good because it evaporates so quickly and doesn't leave a residue.

 

[NightTrain]

I normally use my t-shirt. My wife says my clothes are dirtier than our 3 year old's.

 

[Xyclone]

Q-Tips with 70% rubbing isopropyl alcohol.

 

[ecvs85]

pharmacy's alcohol swabs 😵, because I cound't find any liqiud isopropyl alcohol 🙁
it got some lint though so I need to be careful in cleaning especially my zalman cnps7000 as it is just many fins mounted together 😵