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Cleaning a chip

Postby Sisco22 » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:09 am

Hey guys, What can you use to clean a chip? like getting heatsink grease off it. I am working on an Xbox 360 and there is grease caked up on the gpu and cpu. can anyone recommend anything?
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Postby yeshuas » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:10 am

alcohol and make sure you get all the alcohol off as well
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Postby Sisco22 » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:10 am

its not taking it off that good.
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Postby yeshuas » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:12 am

it may take a little bit of rubbing, but that is what I always use.
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Postby ar1stotle » Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:37 am

Goof-Off. Or basically any other mineral spirits (I think)... but I use Goof-Off which is xylene based. It works really well.
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Postby EXTREMEoverclocker » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:20 am

99% alcohol ...
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Postby augie » Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:56 am

EXTREMEoverclocker wrote:99% alcohol ...


Make that %99 isopropyl alcohol if you can find it as I'm pretty sure you can't get that kind of purity in a liquor store. Anyways, isopropyl will be cheaper.

BTW, I've used %70 U.S.P. isopropyl on a chip/HSF that had one of those factory installed pads and it came off fairly easily using a lint free cloth, you can also apparently use a microfibre cloth too but I haven't personally tried it.

There's also ArtiClean, $6 at Newegg
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Postby EXTREMEoverclocker » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:05 am

haha ya my bad augi ... i meant isopropyl alcohol ...

and you can get close at the liquor store ... with some everclear :)
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Postby Sisco22 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:16 pm

I used the alcohol and a toothbrush with soft bristles and got it clean :) the only thing is now, it is still coming up with the red ring of death, but we hit it on the side and it starting working but then it started freezing up. It acts like the gpu is getting too hot still :(
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