Acceptable condition for used CPU?

[GregK2]

Bought a used i5 4590t for a low powered fanless ITX build.
The contact pads look damaged to me, or would you consider this acceptable?

 

[Curlyriff]

Nope that's messed up personally and would not sell something in that condition or expect to receive tbh.

 

[Vince]

Whats the issue with it, I cant tell if it's the camera or if some of the pads are just a little bit dark? If it works clean it up with a bit of ipa and be done with it, it's not a new cpu so if it works then happy days. I hope you didn't pay a lot I sold a few of these CPU's a while ago for £35/£40.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Looks like thermal paste to me

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

Just looks like some thermal paste.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Thermal paste only improves the contact.

/jokes

Can't say I'd be thrilled about that, but if it works...

 

[On Holiday]

 

[MaXxBoulton]

it just thermal paste nothing to cry about. just wipe it off and move on with your life

 

[GregK2]

Whats the issue with it, I cant tell if it's the camera or if some of the pads are just a little bit dark? If it works clean it up with a bit of ipa and be done with it, it's not a new cpu so if it works then happy days. I hope you didn't pay a lot I sold a few of these CPU's a while ago for £35/£40.

I paid a little over the odds for it, there wasn't many for sale and I didn't really know its value.

it just thermal paste nothing to cry about. just wipe it off and move on with your life

Thanks, my tears cleaned it right up good as new.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

my tears cleaned it right up good as new

lol, i just mean it really is nothing. ever ones was getting a little worked up about nothing

 

[Woodsta888]

Your photo isn't the best, but are we looking at the small light grey bits mid left ,o r the whole of the darker area bottom left? Or is the darker area just the way the pic has been taken?

 

[GregK2]

Your photo isn't the best, but are we looking at the small light grey bits mid left ,o r the whole of the darker area bottom left? Or is the darker area just the way the pic has been taken?

Sorry yes the picture was poor which may have been misleading. The dark looking area is just shadow. It was just thermal compound I was referencing which I (embarrassingly) didn't actually realise that's all it was. All cleaned up now.

 

[Len Dananey]

It is thermal compound, simple to clean.

 

[Myocardial Inf]

As long as it's not an electrically conductive paste it'll have zero impact. All my old CPU's used to look way worse after a spell in the vapochill with the entire socket filled to avoid condensation build up.