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Sisco22
PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:09 pm Reply with quote

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Hey guys, What can you use to clean a chip? like getting heatsink grease off it. I am working on an Xbox 360 and there is grease caked up on the gpu and cpu. can anyone recommend anything?
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alcohol and make sure you get all the alcohol off as well
 
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Sisco22
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its not taking it off that good.
 
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it may take a little bit of rubbing, but that is what I always use.
 
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Goof-Off. Or basically any other mineral spirits (I think)... but I use Goof-Off which is xylene based. It works really well.
 
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EXTREMEoverclocker
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99% alcohol ...
 
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EXTREMEoverclocker wrote:
99% alcohol ...


Make that %99 isopropyl alcohol if you can find it as I'm pretty sure you can't get that kind of purity in a liquor store. Anyways, isopropyl will be cheaper.

BTW, I've used %70 U.S.P. isopropyl on a chip/HSF that had one of those factory installed pads and it came off fairly easily using a lint free cloth, you can also apparently use a microfibre cloth too but I haven't personally tried it.

There's also ArtiClean, $6 at Newegg
 
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EXTREMEoverclocker
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haha ya my bad augi ... i meant isopropyl alcohol ...

and you can get close at the liquor store ... with some everclear smile
 
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Sisco22
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I used the alcohol and a toothbrush with soft bristles and got it clean smile the only thing is now, it is still coming up with the red ring of death, but we hit it on the side and it starting working but then it started freezing up. It acts like the gpu is getting too hot still sad
 
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