Few questions here. Do you guys use alcohol to remove TIM ? If not what is best, I don't want to ruin my CPU. Second I just got h100i for my 4790k. Is the pre applied TIM on h100i better than my new mx-4 I bought. I read here that is the best stuff, and i'm using it now. Should I remove TIM on h100i for that or just keep it. I did get a refurbished h100i off newegg for a great price, so I don't even know if it will have TIM already applied. I had a 40 dollar gift card on new egg so I pretty much got h100 for 25 bucks.
Alcohol is fine to remove TIM, I would use at least 70% Isopropyl Alcohol, higher percentage is better. There is also Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier which could also be used. It should always be cleaned with a microfiber cloth to prevent fibers from sticking onto the CPU or heatsink/cpu block surface. The TIM on the H100i should be better or equal to the MX-4. Temperatures between all of the higher end thermal pastes should be within a few degrees; or the margin of error.
You know, I really dig the two part ArcticClean. I bough some on ebay for $7 and I've never gotten processors cleaner. OEMs use 99.9% alcohol pads, but still, the 2 part literally dissolves all TIM and then preps the surfaces for new tim.
I usually use 90% alcohol as it is cheap, then use the arctic clean 2 parts.
90%>arctic part1>arctic part2.
By doing this, you save a lot of use on your part1 arctic cleaner and will last a long time.
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