If my motherboard is green is it still bad lava that I shouldnt get the toothpaste on?
So this is where I have been going wrong, I was using thermal paste.
I totally want to do the metal method.
[QUOTE=JDB;37374820]If my motherboard is green is it still bad lava that I shouldnt get the toothpaste on?[/QUOTE]
If it's green you can get toothpaste on it, in fact it's encouraged to get as much on as possible
I live in Kentucky and this is how I installed my i5 3570k
Oh god I remember this guy.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUOOryxVzY&t=26s[/url]
Cringed throughout that entire video
I have to ask but what is thermal paste on the cpu supposed to do?
Isnt water actually the best way to clean a mother board as long as it drys out?
Its not like the water will break anything as long as it just drys out completely before turning it on and shit.
[QUOTE=Tobor;37378127]I have to ask but what is thermal paste on the cpu supposed to do?[/QUOTE]
It improves heat conduction between the CPU and the heat sink by filling in tiny grooves caused by the machining of the components.
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[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;37378183]Isnt water actually the best way to clean a mother board as long as it drys out?
Its not like the water will break anything as long as it just drys out completely before turning it on and shit.[/QUOTE]
Haha, no.
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;37378287]It improves heat conduction between the CPU and the heat sink by filling in tiny grooves caused by the machining of the components.
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Sounds nice, but how long till it gets umm how to say rusty? I wouldn't want to change it every 5 months or so.
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;37378287]It improves heat conduction between the CPU and the heat sink by filling in tiny grooves caused by the machining of the components.
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Haha, no.[/QUOTE]
Google says otherwise, washing your motherboard is one of the best ways to clean it, it just needs to dry, and obviously not have a processor on it or battery.
[QUOTE=Tobor;37378354]Sounds nice, but how long till it gets umm how to say rusty? I wouldn't want to change it every 5 months or so.[/QUOTE]
It lasts for years. But it's useless without (I prefer semi-annual) heat sink dustings. :eng101:
[QUOTE=Tobor;37378354]Sounds nice, but how long till it gets umm how to say rusty? I wouldn't want to change it every 5 months or so.[/QUOTE]
You're not really supposed to change thermal paste often, maybe, every year if you're picky. But the difference it would make doing new is small Maybe 1-2C probably. It's normally non-conductive and non-corrosive.
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[QUOTE=shingda;37377754]Cringed throughout that entire video[/QUOTE]
It's an A-Bit mob it looks like. Nothing of value was lost.
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;37378597]Google says otherwise, washing your motherboard is one of the best ways to clean it, it just needs to dry, and obviously not have a processor on it or battery.[/QUOTE]
No no no no no. Not unless you discharge EVERY capacitor, and somehow can guarantee that not a single bit of current runs through the water running over the motherboard.
If you need to clean it, you use a static free cloth and compressed air.
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;37378597]Google says otherwise, washing your motherboard is one of the best ways to clean it, it just needs to dry, and obviously not have a processor on it or battery.[/QUOTE]
Go for it
[QUOTE=shingda;37377754]Cringed throughout that entire video[/QUOTE]
Don't see why you would, it's perfectly valid. Hell, the water method works great on PSUs too
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/98BAz.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;37378597]Google says otherwise, washing your motherboard is one of the best ways to clean it, it just needs to dry, and obviously not have a processor on it or battery.[/QUOTE]
Nope. If the water has been distilled to hell and back it won't be too bad.
But regular water will leave mineral deposits when it evaporates, which may jump pins and short circuit the mobo
[QUOTE=smurfy;37376141]If it's green you can get toothpaste on it, in fact it's encouraged to get as much on as possible[/QUOTE]
Yeah, green means good!
[QUOTE=Maloof?;37379174]Nope. If the water has been distilled to hell and back it won't be too bad.
But regular water will leave mineral deposits when it evaporates, which may jump pins and short circuit the mobo[/QUOTE]
that's why you use denatured 99% alcohol to clean circuit boards with, no residue.
[QUOTE=zombini;37379514]that's why you use denatured 99% alcohol to clean circuit boards with, no residue.[/QUOTE]
Yup! Is denatured alcohol the same as isopropyl?
I went to the pharmacy in town to get some iso one day. They were hesitant to sell because apparently it's used to make crystal meth. They suggested methylated spirits instead.
I asked a friend and he told me that methylated spirits can leave a thin conductive film, which ain't good.
I went back to the shop to tell them this and they'd hidden all of the iso.
Bloody beard-stereotypes I tell you
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That being said, this one time my cat pissed on the screen of my LCD monitor. By the time I found it the piss had leaked down into the buttons and knobs at the front. I unplugged it and opened it up. I couldn't afford the litre or two of iso that it would have taken to wash it out, so I just used spring water.
I can see a bunch of mineral deposits under the screen (they look like dark smudges) and near the bottom there are three of four horizontal lines of dead pixels.
So yes, there can be some significant issues with using water.
Or maybe it was the piss in the particular case.
God yes, it's as if he captures how 95% of this state would do something like that. Seriously, I love Kentucky here and there, but we have some technological retards. This man's satire captures it perfectly.
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