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Hi
I'm about to re-sit my heatsink, have an akasa 965 and q6600, just wondering how should i remove the thermal paste on it? I have two bottle of that Arcticlean remover, and will be using mx2 paste, so how do i excatly use the arcticlean to rmeove the paste? im guessing i dont just pour it onto the cpu :P
Thanks
No, don't pour it onto the CPU =)
Pour a little amount onto a lint free cloth and gently rub off any residue.
Are there no instructions on the Arcticlean remover bottle?
^ nope no instructions on the bottles, the text is in french :(Quote:
Originally Posted by zaphox
I dont have a lint free cloth, so would a tissue do? or even some cotton material from an old tshisrt?
I find kitchen roll works well when your in a pinch and need something that's readily at-hand.
As Zaphox said, lol
You can also use isopropyl alcohol instead of Arcticlean, you can buy the alcohol at a pharmacists for about £5.00 for 500ml, which will last you a long long time. It's also good for cleaning spectacles and other electronic equipment.
Or if you're a real cheapster, use meths.
PS, yep, any clean dry soft cloth will do.
yeah a bit of tissue will be all right, Kitchen roll is better than bog roll
Instructions in English!!!!
http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appi...arcticlean.pdf
I use nail polish remover and toilet or kitchen roll
Well I'm back online after rebuilding and cleaning out my the whole of my rig, so much dust
The cleaning was easier then i thought! it was actually quite enjoyable ended up using a nomal kitchen towel/tissue, but putting on the thermal paste was a right old pain, tried doing the line thing that Arctic Silver recommend, but ended up wasting abit of paste cos its impossible to get a perfect thin stright line, so got frustrated and just used the method that AC MX2 recommends which is a small pea blob in the middle! and so far after 10 mins of running the pc the temps have gone down by 5-7c! Will have to monitor what its like in the next few days, but so far so good before it used to idle around 37-42c across the cores, now its 28-35c at this moment in time.
I also discovered why the push pins can be an **** to fit sometimes! If the white bits arent pushed into the holes fully then it wont lock, once i aligned the whit bits properly, it locked into place perfectly and how they show them in the vids!
Kitchen roll has never faulted me, i find using number 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 works a bit better than just 1 then 2 of the arcticlean
kitchen roll then tim-clean and a coton wool bud has always worked for me
Kitchen roll here too, definitely get the alcohol from the chemist or online.
I have used little pads from screen cleaning kits too and they were good.
I personally use Roccol Electra Clean, it is not ideal as it dries slower than the alcohol (it was free) but it I notice a huge drop is temperatures whenever I clean my CPU.
I gently and lightly brush past the areas with paste on to remove as much as I can, and do the same if it has smeared elsewhere.
Then I make sure I clean the contact area gently but with a little more force than before until it has a consistent mirror like shine to it.
Make sure there is nothing visible, like fluff etc, and you are good to go.
Check the heatsink too.