thermal paste on cpu pins!! (lga) help please!!

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Hi guys, i got thermal compound on my lga pins, and i quickly wiped it off with toilet paper, but when i hold the cpu (q6600) against light, the place which got affected by the tim, looks kinda more dark, should i be worried???
 
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oh so not on the pins then, but on the contacts. Use some basic rubbing alcohol on a cotton swap and gently rub it to try and get it clean and you should be okay

For the record, what kind of thermal paste was it? If it was basic silicon paste without any conductive properties then just getting it mostly all off should be fine, so long as the connection can still be made. If it is conductive though then it is a bit more worrisome because it could connect two on the points together causing any number of potential problems, including potentially frying the chip.
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oh so not on the pins then, but on the contacts. Use some basic rubbing alcohol on a cotton swap and gently rub it to try and get it clean and you should be okay

For the record, what kind of thermal paste was it? If it was basic silicon paste without any conductive properties then just getting it mostly all off should be fine, so long as the connection can still be made. If it is conductive though then it is a bit more worrisome because it could connect two on the points together causing any number of potential problems, including potentially frying the chip.
 
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The thermal paste tells me HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

 
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Thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity are not the same thing, sorry I should of made that more clear in my previous post. Thermal conductivity just means it conducts heat, which is good. Electrical conductivity is the one you need to worry about and can cause problems.
 
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but the computer will boot, there is just no display and i opened another thread to this, that guy told me to use integrated mobo graphics (vga) that worked until tim got on my cpu
should i be worried even more?
 
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