When getting thermal paste off of cpu, do you still see some residue?

[niwi7]

see my post here---
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=37&threadid=1101367http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=37&threadid=1101367



used rubbing alchohol (looked @ ingredients and they were 70% alchohol and other ingredients: water)

so using lint free cloth i gently wiped the top wehre i screwed up with the too much thermal paste...however the cpu is still colored a wahsed out color of the paste even thou all the paste is gone


is this normal?

EDIT--- here is a scan of it of it---

http://www.geocities.com/thebeagwels/cpu.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/thebeagwels/cpu.JPG


if link doest work copy and paste








there is no thermal paste on any of the connectors they all just look a little paste-colored thou well ull see

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

What did you do, cover the entire core?

- M4H

 

[MDE]

GOOD GOD! I thought I was sloppy... but anyways thats a LOT of extra paste. Give it a go... it should be ok as long as you don't have any bridges connected.

 

[niwi7]

lol yea read the topic in my first post



i had no idea wut i was doing and i was retarted and now i know it


im just asking if you think i got it all off based on that picture b/c like i said w/ the alchohol it looks like it comes off but then when it dries it goes back to that color....

 

[carmat4]

Read what I posted on you link to earlier thread.
The CPU that I accidentally spilled and smeared AS on, looks grayish like AS after drying.
The CPU works though, but I was really worried for a while.