need help - thermal paste on bottom of CPU

Bimze

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Jul 22, 2016
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hello to everyone. i got thermal paste on the bottom of my CPU 5960x.

i try to clean it with q-tips and high % alcohol. it clean off but lost a little graysh spot about 1mm diameter.

i try to clean it around an hour - but to no avail, then i try acetone, it did the things gettin better but the graysh spot wont go away((

thermal paste is arctic mx4.

maybe you can provide soulution - how to clean it perfect without damaging my cpu.

thanks.