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860lacov

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I assembled PC with 5900x on board but I wasn't sure if I did everything as it should be with a CPU.
I decided to reassembly everything.
When I took CPU from bay a little bit of thermal paste got on to pins (YES PINS)
Not the worst yet.

I started to clean pins. At the beginning with dry soft brush and then when I couldn't clean it I decided to go with little bit of ArctiClean.

At the end of cleaning my hand shaken and drop of ArctiClean got to pins.

I assembled PC and it is working - I can see bios only because I don't have a system yet.
It looked like an Image (I made it form sample in Gimp) I attached.
I f...d up but how badly ?
I dried it but there is a darker stain between pins. (On the PCB - not sure if CPU has PCB)
CPU.png
 
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Get some electronics cleaner spray and clean it with that, otherwise it's prob nothing to worry about.
 
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It's most likely nothing to worry about. But to be safe, you can spray it with something like CRC electronic sensor cleaner.

Honestly, articlean is already sort of similar in that it cleans, not eats electronics, so I doubt you'll need to bother.
 
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Ok
Thank you very much!!

Tomorrow I'll go to the hardware shop and check if they have something but currently I would like not to touch CPU any more :) [for some time at least]

And as for the spray.

I can just spray the pin side of the CPU? Nothing wrong with that?
 
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860lacov said:
I can just spray the pin side of the CPU? Nothing wrong with that?
Click to expand...

If you mean the electronics cleaner, yes, just do that and it should evaporate/dry very quickly. Then you can reinstall.
 
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R-T-B said:
If you mean the electronics cleaner, yes, just do that and it should evaporate/dry very quickly. Then you can reinstall.
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Could you tell me what are the ingredients of that CRC cleaner?
Is this something like IPA ?
Can I use isopropyl on whole cpu?
 
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860lacov said:
Could you tell me what are the ingredients of that CRC cleaner?
Is this something like IPA ?
Can I use isopropyl on whole cpu?
Click to expand...

That should be safe too if you are sure and let it dry.
 
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