Household Product to Clean Northbridge Surface?
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Household Product to Clean Northbridge Surface?
Is there any effective household product that can be used to safely clean the grease that comes default on a northbridge processor, with intentions of reapplying my own and swapping heatsinks?
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The chipset on the Asus A8N-E had a thermal pad, like you see on a lot of OEM CPU heatsinks. It was a lot easier to get off with the ArticClean 1 (citrus cleaner), but I don't recall if I could have gotten it off with alcohol alone.
I used cotton swaps (Q-tips in USA) dipped in the cleaner, so there was not much chance of getting it under the chip. I probably used about 10 swabs, changing them frequently to avoid just spreading around the gooey residue from the old thermal pad. It’s really not that difficult.
I used cotton swaps (Q-tips in USA) dipped in the cleaner, so there was not much chance of getting it under the chip. I probably used about 10 swabs, changing them frequently to avoid just spreading around the gooey residue from the old thermal pad. It’s really not that difficult.
I use IPA (isopropyl alcohol) mostly, if your cleaning something it's great, or to get rid of residue, it will also shift soft runny types of thermal paste but not chewing gum remover.
UK Link as an example. http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch ... 1477&N=411
Chewing gum remover gets rid of the tough stuff, but does not evaporate, AND leaves an extremely greasy residue thats easily cleaned up by IPA, use wisely.
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch ... 0736&N=411
Andy
UK Link as an example. http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch ... 1477&N=411
Chewing gum remover gets rid of the tough stuff, but does not evaporate, AND leaves an extremely greasy residue thats easily cleaned up by IPA, use wisely.
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch ... 0736&N=411
Andy