Thermal paste in cpu socket

Can I clean out my cpu socket when small amounts of thermal paste made their way in?
And if I can, how?
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Soap and water are fine. Make sure that the power supply is unplugged (obviously).

if it's non-conductive paste, it shouldn't hurt anything. Leave it alone.

It is conductive paste sadly

slide ?
you can but thermal paste is by definition [conductive] ... thats bad

There are those kinds of play-dough cleanup things that you can use. dont remeber their names but that should work

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be careful next time, kid

Since it's such a small amount I'd recommend just using a needle. A toothpick might fuck shit up if it breaks so don't try that.

Rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab. It should be fine even if you miss some as long as it's isolated per contact point.

(very) Hot water mixed with soap.
Use a straight hair brush to gently work the socket holes and create an emulsion, wipe often.
Use air compressor to remove what's in them, air dry the thing properly.
Use a magnifier & torch to see if there's any residue, if not, just be sure your mb is clean & dry and it should be okay.

>you can but thermal paste is by definition [conductive] ... thats bad
no. Very few thermal pastes are electrically conductive.

Cpu got stuck to heatsink and fell

I've had a simillar problem.recently
But the thermal paste actually got on my cpu pins
I bought 99.8% alcohol (most 90%+ will do), got a clean tootbrush and just wiped it with that.

No, this will leave residue. Don't do it.

This. Isopropyl alcohol is a standard go to for cleaning thermal paste up, soak a toothbrush and gently scrub over the affected holes, then hit it with an air duster to blow out the remains. Do not blow with your mouth or you may blast spit into a hole.

Just use a fucking toothbrush

shouldn't CPU be locked to the MB?
how can you take out heatsink and cpu at same time?

Sadly, mine is.

Get a toothbrush and isopropyl alcohol and brush it gently

I accidentally fucking unlocked the cpu

Would a clean airbrush with alcohol work?

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Did it work better than replacing the motherboard?

Well, the thermal paste I used wasn't actually conductive, but I still wanted to wipe it off completely.
I soaked the toothbrush in isoproyl alcohol and gently rubbed the pins with a somewhat soft toothbrush.
Everything got off, It evaporated quickly and it worked without a problem.
I would suggest you do the same as long as you can get 90%+ alcohol.

Clean as much as you can
If the thermal paste doesn't get spilled over it should be fine.
The thing that'll fuck it up is if you make a circuit between pins with cpu pins

Amd socket?
Well, good then, you can switch to intel finally

How do you even manage this?

I really don't want to switch motherboards thoughhhhhhh

It fell on it upside down

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This is why you twist the heatsink off gently and not just yank it off.

that's actually impressive

the master fucker-upper

try whit alcohol

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Would it be easier to replace motherboard?

Thankfully you have superior AMD technology. If you had Intel that would be the end of your mobo.
Now take a paper towel and rub the socket. Done.

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