So I have a and athlon x4 750k and my brother accidentally touched the pre applied thermal compound on the heatsink. Luckily we have some thermal paste but we don't have isophryol alcohol. So we daringly used nail polish remover by cutex non-acetone pink. Since we could not go outside as its a blizzard and roads are closed. So is the heatsink safe to use on the CPU. BTW it is the stock heatsink for the athlon x4 750k
Did I ruin my heatsink?
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ewok93
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Do not use it, yet, but it is not damaged. Just get some rubbing alcohol or distilled water and use a coffee filter to clean it off. You just don't want the other things to be preventing the heat from transferring. Avoid using paper towels as they can leave micro-abrasions that reduce the thermal conductivity.
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Should work, but next time, don't use anything rougher than a coffee filter. Also, just cotton balls will work, you don't necessarily need liquid. I'm not quite sure what those are, but if they have any fragrance or anything, ANYTHING besides alcohol, wait until you have 99% unscented uncolored rubbing alcohol, or distilled (it HAS to be distilled) water.
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Well you could always lap it but I don't usually recommend doing this because if you do it wrong you could just make things worse. I have done some light lapping using paper towels before because a paper towel is like a 4000 grit sand paper. Problem with paper towels is that they leave lint behind and unless you clean the cooler properly and do the lapping right I don't recommend it.
So don't do it unless you have no other choice.
Oh, and if they are really light scratches I would just leave it alone you will see negligible performance hit with light scratches that is after all what the thermal grease is for to fill in the light scratches and uneven spots to increase your surface area and give you better thermal transfer.
Just built the computer loaded windows 8 and my idle temps are 40-50c is OK? I will probably get a new aftermarket heatsink some day, any suggestions? Also mobo is fm2+. Was very surprised that computer booted up first try no problems, as I rushed it and it was my first build.
I did the dot method and let the heatsink spread it using Arctic Silver 5, also I have a Micro ATX mobo and a cooler master haf 922 and I am will probably get a new heatsink, but I I need a heatsink that supports fm2(+) and that it won't touch the graphics card(gtx 660). Also thanks for your helpful replies, this forum is very helpful
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If you can afford one, a Corsair H60 would work nicely as it can fit in just about any case, because it just mounts a small block onto your CPU, and then onto a 120mm fan mount, though it's a bit wider. You can find them refurbished for $35.
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