Water Cleaning a heatsink

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So I decided that because I had so much dust on an old heatsink that I had I was gonna remove the fan and try to run it under water because it was too annoying to clean by hand/air can. Here is my old heatsink, I removed the fan and only ran the copper under water... now my question is...is it still usable once it has fully dried?
 
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Gam3r01
It should be, just dont do that again.

You are going to want to clean the actual block itself (with rubbing alcohol) incase there is any water residue left over.

In the future use air, I also use toothpicks.
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I plan on letting it dry for a few days, so basically just clean the block with rub alcohol and all should be well?
 
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yea waters not going to hurt it, I had an old cpu water block lying around and the oil from my skin sitting on it for months actually tunred it some what brownish black in spots, its not going to hurt anything, it is copper.

water runs through copper pipes in your house

if you want it to dry faster use a hair drying and blow it off and clean with iospropyl alcohol
 
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