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Old 10-15-09   #11 (permalink)
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Naphtha... aka Ronsonol... aka Lighter fluid... alcohol is a weak solvent. naphtha will actually break thermal compound down and will not hard anything.

a lot of the "TIM cleaners" are just a bottle of naphtha and a bottle of alcohol. use the naphtha to clean the compound and the alcohol to clean any residue.
I dont think i have any at the moment but that will come in handy in the future
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Scrape it off with a bit of hard plastic card or heat it slightly with a hair dryer before wiping
Iv been scraping it but its sticky so it still leaves residue on it.
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an old plastic credit card, membership card etc good, also for re spreading your new Tim on to
I was thinking on just doing bb size beed on the gpu and cpu. Sense its just a xbox360 I dont need to squeeze every last bit of cooling out of it

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Acetone or WD40?

Wd40 will likely leave a residue tho.

Also w/ acetone, don't get it on the PCB if you can help it.
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I dont think i have any at the moment but that will come in handy in the future

Iv been scraping it but its sticky so it still leaves residue on it.
I was thinking on just doing bb size beed on the gpu and cpu. Sense its just a xbox360 I dont need to squeeze every last bit of cooling out of it

Again thanks for the quick replys
I would highly recommend that you apply far more Tim on the GPU for Xbox and PS3's, not stupid amounts, but a good amount and spread it evenly across the chip before applying the heatsink,

Its quite common xboxes and PS3's have heat releated issues, I've just recently baked my PS3 mobo to fix it

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I use this to clean.
If this wont remove it then lap it with high grit.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100010
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