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[Lorec]

Visit uni and ask them to run it through an ultrasonic cleaner.

As for the previous photos, I hope the OP had Darude Sandstorm playing in the background while cleaning.

Ultrasonic cleaner is a great device! I might be getting a consumer version !
Not only You can clean Your parts, You can age Your alcohol with it! check out "the thought emporium" channel on YT.
Its magic.

 

[Chomiq]

Ultrasonic cleaner is a great device! I might be getting a consumer version !
Not only You can clean Your parts, You can age Your alcohol with it! check out "the thought emporium" channel on YT.
Its magic.

Just make sure you have a dedicated room to put it in, since the noise will drive you crazy.

 

[Grog6]

Just bought used heatsink from local online shop, i know i will clean it, but after i opened the box

Tadaaaaaa... Relic heatsink from 1972
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Dang, that's got to be the worst one I've seen.

6 heatpipes, it's worth recovering.

Most methods of cleaning aluminum require scrubbing the surface; that's just not really possible on a heatsink fin.

The oxidation is a crappy heat conductor, so if you want to use it, you need to remove it...

My recommendation would be aluminum mag cleaner.

It's mostly Phosphoric acid, with some HF thrown in for good measure; you will need to wear rubber gloves, and not get any of it on your skin.

Hit it, leave it 5 minutes, then rinse with hot water, as hot as you can.
A pan of boiling water to dip it in will work, just be careful.
Remember the cpu pad will get really warm when you stick the fins in; I've seen people surprised they work both ways, lol.

You will have to hit it several times, most likely.

When it comes clean, rinse it in clean cold water for a while, turning it every way, then spray it down with WD40 or a similar silicone spray, and leave it on paper towels to dry.

The WD will keep it from reoxidizing.

If it won't come clean, look for pipe cleaners that have metal wires in them, sticking out like the cotton threads do.
Those will scrub it clean.

I hate to tell you this, but that's what Cat Pee does to Aluminum.
It's the ammonia, it makes it corrode.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just saw this......:

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That is a classic "The Verge" moment.

 

[R-T-B]

Hi guys Bit of a background then some pics

I had been chatting to a friend at work about possible upgrades for their PC, suggested a graphics card and said you might possibly need a new PSU. They grabbed the card and then found that the current PSU was working ok for the moment with the 'new' card.
A few weeks had gone by and they'd said they'd noticed some noises from the PSU so I suggested the same PSU again and it got ordered in. I said bring in the tower and I can get the PSU installed and your SSD setup as they'd ordered one of those as well..
Well I was somewhat in shock when they brought in the PSU.. I thought'd it wouldn't quite be like this....

Before....

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And here's some after pics....

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I didn't think I had ever seen such a mess of a rig (and I thought mine was bad but) still, I hope a definite improvement

The first few pictures, more so with the temp in the bios, I noticed that the CPU cooler had been slightly bent and both fans where stopping from spinning. So glad I tested it before I took anything out of the case... I think in the after pics, there's a definite improvement on the temps
From what I think I'm correct in saying is that the 'screws' that hold the CPU cooler on to the motherboard they have been rounded off and I could not take off the CPU cooler to get some new paste on there so it's still running the same old stuff.. That said, with a near 15C drop in idle temp in the bios, I'm not really so worried.
The GPU was also tested as that was not long installed into the system, but with not voltage tweaking and such on the card running Heaven 4 for about 15 minutes, I couldn't see temps over 75C. Not bad I didn't think for a stock RX 580 Strix. It was all stock and automatic when it came to the fan profile. I was having a slight mess about with undervolting the card but as I was at work, I didn't spend very long doing it sadly.

My first time with the board and CPU combo, Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H and a Intel i5 4690k. I was able to get a CPU overclock sorted out by setting the vcore to fixed to about 1.15v. I was able to push the CPU with this voltage up to 4.50Ghz which seemed to work perfectly as you can see from the snipped screen shot in CB 15 I didn't have long with the system, but it seemed to be perfectly stable through CB 15 and 20 and with temps not hitting 60C under load, I'm rather pleased They had 16Gb of Crucial 1600Mhz DDR3, which was cas 11. Nothing bad or over the top brilliant, but the capacity was there so that was the main thing as I think the PC before had about 4Gb or possibly 8Gb in..

We installed Windows 10 on to a new SSD, CrucialBX 480 Gb, seems fairly decent and compared to the 1Tb Seagate SSHD, it's a load faster.

When I got it into work this morning, the person was amazed and very pleased with it I hope there's a good enough difference and that it passes the TPU test

Damn, that's a case vaguely similar to mine...

mine if you left it in king tuts tomb for 10,000 years anyhow...

*shivvers* Seriously, where does this guy live? A dusty pyramid?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Damn, that's a case vaguely similar to mine...

mine if you left it in king tuts tomb for 10,000 years anyhow...

*shivvers* Seriously, where does this guy live? A dusty pyramid?

To me it looks like there was some cigerrette tar mixed in.

 

[Splinterdog]

I wasn't sure if these belonged in the nostalgic area or here, but anyway, a friend dropped this off wanting me to sell it for her.
On first sight - it has a groovy window side panel - I thought it may be a P4 because of the 478 heatsink, but sadly, it's a Celeron.
Windows XP of course, but it still runs, in spite of the gunk.

 

[Jetster]

Back when you tried to fill every bay with something

 

[lexluthermiester]

I wasn't sure if these belonged in the nostalgic area or here, but anyway, a friend dropped this off wanting me to sell it for her.
On first sight - it has a groovy window side panel - I thought it may be a P4 because of the 478 heatsink, but sadly, it's a Celeron.
Windows XP of course, but it still runs, in spite of the gunk.
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Put it in both threads! It's got elements of both. It has some nasty and it's got some nostalgia! It's got potential too!

Back when you tried to fill every bay with something

And I nearly did!

 

[phill]

Damn, that's a case vaguely similar to mine...

mine if you left it in king tuts tomb for 10,000 years anyhow...

*shivvers* Seriously, where does this guy live? A dusty pyramid?

To me it looks like there was some cigerrette tar mixed in.

I'm unsure where she lives but even she was very very impressed with how well it had been returned to what it was delivered like I was just glad I could make it better Hardware abuse can be on many levels.......

 

[Chomiq]

I'm unsure where she lives but even she was very very impressed with how well it had been returned to what it was delivered like I was just glad I could make it better Hardware abuse can be on many levels.......

Her name... Lara Cruft

 

[micropage7]

Dang, that's got to be the worst one I've seen.

6 heatpipes, it's worth recovering.

Most methods of cleaning aluminum require scrubbing the surface; that's just not really possible on a heatsink fin.

The oxidation is a crappy heat conductor, so if you want to use it, you need to remove it...

My recommendation would be aluminum mag cleaner.

It's mostly Phosphoric acid, with some HF thrown in for good measure; you will need to wear rubber gloves, and not get any of it on your skin.

Hit it, leave it 5 minutes, then rinse with hot water, as hot as you can.
A pan of boiling water to dip it in will work, just be careful.
Remember the cpu pad will get really warm when you stick the fins in; I've seen people surprised they work both ways, lol.

You will have to hit it several times, most likely.

When it comes clean, rinse it in clean cold water for a while, turning it every way, then spray it down with WD40 or a similar silicone spray, and leave it on paper towels to dry.

The WD will keep it from reoxidizing.

If it won't come clean, look for pipe cleaners that have metal wires in them, sticking out like the cotton threads do.
Those will scrub it clean.

I hate to tell you this, but that's what Cat Pee does to Aluminum.
It's the ammonia, it makes it corrode.

Yeah, now i'm trying to soak it in vinegar
Maybe i will leave it for 24 hours to see how far it goes

 

[Grog6]

I would inspect it every ~4-6 hours or so; if it strips the oxide all the way, it will start in on the aluminum metal.

Be careful, that looks like a nice heatsink.

 

[micropage7]

I would inspect it every ~4-6 hours or so; if it strips the oxide all the way, it will start in on the aluminum metal.

Be careful, that looks like a nice heatsink.

I try mid solution for start, since I don't want ruin the heatsink

 

[Splinterdog]

Put it in both threads! It's got elements of both. It has some nasty and it's got some nostalgia! It's got potential too!


And I nearly did!

Thanks @lexluthermiester
You just reminded me that I've still got some P4s in a box somewhere, so I'm going to check compatibility right now.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You just reminded me that I've still got some P4s in a box somewhere, so I'm going to check compatibility right now.

Heck yeah! See what you got and give it some upgrade love!

 

[Grog6]

I only have Big ones, lol.

Socket 423, iirc.

At least that mobo isn't rambus!

 

[Splinterdog]

Heck yeah! See what you got and give it some upgrade love!

Done! From a Celeron D to a Pentium 4.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Done! From a Celeron D to a Pentium 4.
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Yup, that'll beat out any of the Celerons.

 

[Splinterdog]

I'll clean it up, get some games running and post it in the nostalgia thread.

 

[potato580+]

i never good with this cable management, how unsightly

 

[hat]

So, in relation to the very old corsair h70 I mentioned a while back, I got started today. For comparison purposes and to still have a computer while working on the h70, I threw in the Cryorig M9 I had laying around. The M9 is a decent step up from the stock cooler, but it's not going to be really good like a monster Noctua cooler, for instance. It reminds me of the widely recommended AC Freezer 7/64 from back in the day when I got into overclocking.

The titles of the images should be rather self explanatory. The main takeaway here is that the old h70 was only beating the M9 by a whole 6 degrees C in Prime95 (AVX). There will be more to follow when I make further progress. I managed to get some (at least roughly) 1/4" ID hose from one of the head techs at work, so I can use that to replace the tubing, at least.

 

[hat]

So, remembering the USB case fan mod, I wired up a universal AC/DC adapter (never used the thing anyway) to a 1 to 2 fan adapter. At first I tried it with +12v only and it didn't work... seems the ground wire is also necessary, who knew? I got a spare 120mm case fan to spin. I patched up the wires with heat shrink tubing so they don't cross or anything (left them bare for the test with the fan) and plugged my h70 into the contraption. I can hear and feel the pump working. This was all done so I could run the pump outside of the case, like in the kitchen or the bathroom or something. Now I can cut the tubing off and cycle white vinegar through it for a while as originally planned. I'm not sure if I want to take the block itself apart... it might be better for cleaning than just cycling vinegar through it for a while, but, well... that might end badly...

Any ideas how long I should cycle vinegar through it? I'm hoping that the action of actually running vinegar through it with the pump will scrub away most of the corrosion and other bad stuff, if there is any. Also, should I use straight distilled water or should I use a water/antifreeze mixture or something?

 

[basco]

how much % is your vinegar ?
i use this for cleaning and more with 25% :

SURIG Essigessenz – unser Original.

SURIG Essigessenz – unser Alleskönner für Küche und Haushalt: zum Kochen, Reinigen und Entkalken.

www.surig.de

i put small drop of antifreeze in it - its like little bit of oil for the pump

 

[HUSKIE]

Done! From a Celeron D to a Pentium 4.
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Oh made in the Philippines. Intel Philippines closed down 10 years ago. Gutted