Thermal paste in motherboard socket

Kushiro

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First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong place.

Anyways, I was stupidly applying the TIM to the CPU next to the motherboard, then my nephew bumps into me while chasing the dog I ended up applying some TIM to the motherboards socket however, luckily there were no bent pins. Now I am wondering whether or not this has ever happened to anyone else, not as in the events leading to it, but the motherboards socket getting thermal paste on it.

I used Arctic MX-4.
 
Luckily mx4 is non conductive but what i would suggest is take out the motherboard and use tim cleaner and carefully blot out the tim and tim cleaner then dry it with some compressed air and hopefully this should solve your issue
 
yea, I was thinking about doing that, though unfortunately my hands shake, and I am unable to do anything that requires such delicate precision.

I will try just using the compressed air though. Would you happen to know whether using the Arctic Silver ArctiClean could do any damage? As far as I have been able to find, it seems rather safe.
 
I think it should be ok just pour a little on then blow it off and hopefully that will get it off without any damage then repeat as needed till it's gone
 
Yea, I think I'll just let is soak for about a minute.

Luckily this wanst my new x99 mobo :D

Also how does your h100i do with your 3770k? if you dont mind me asking.
 
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I was testing how much thermal past was appropriate to make the contact between the CPU and the cpu cooler. I dont know why but one of my cores on the 2600k was jumpy, and I just wanted to check to see if it was a problem with my application of the TIM before I stuck it into a backup PC.

I find it is just a lot easier to clean off the thermal paste when it wasnt in the socket.
 
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Ive had something similar to this happen to me when swapping out CPU's the old tim went in the socket. I bought a really soft and fine paint brush and applied some tim cleaner to it and slowely brushed it off. The paint brush was only a couple of quid from wh smiths
 
On a sidenote... Imagine that beeing on a AMD socket....

That happened to me with my 8320 rig.I got it on the socket, on the (also slightly bent) cpu pins and on the side of the cpu. Surprisingly easy to get rid of as long as you have the right stuff. Just takes patience and a liberal amount of TIM remover.
 
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