Can alco hand rub be sed as a TIM remover?

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Contents: Ethanol 70%, carbomer, isopropyl myristate, glycerine, monopropylene, glycol, vit E, demin water.

Anything in there that makes it unsuitable to use?

Ninja: used. Stupid laptop keyboards.
 
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What about meths? Only because I wanted to get this cooler fitted today, I'm working 9 days after this weekend. I'm pretty sure there's some pure meth in the garage.
 
Either would work as in remove the paste, meths the better of the two. However they will each leave crap on the surface, which isn't great. It'll either physically interfere with heat transfer or attack the thermal paste. Probably the former, and probably a negligible effect.

Why not just use cotton buds? They'll leave a very small amount of thermal paste on the surface, that's preferable to leaving vitamin e or purple dye on the surface.
 
So just a hairdryer and a cotton bud? Sounds like it should be harder. If it doesn't work out, I can always remove it fully later - the 3.5g MX-3 should give me a few applications' worth, at least. Thanks guys.

Edit: would it be worth reapplying the TIM on the Northbridge & voltage regulators while I've got it all open?
 
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i bought a small bottle of isopropyl alcohol over 3 years ago and it's still about 1/4 full. works great
 
I use brasso - might leave some residue I dunno but its a fine abrasive and hopefully that outweighs anything left behind - regardless I get top notch cooling results so it can't be too bad.
 
Brasso tends to attack copper unfortunately, can leave you with a pitted surface.

Boots don't sell IPA, or at least wouldn't sell me any. They did offer to order in some acetone, which apparently they normally stock. Confused me considerably, surely acetone is more hazardous than alcohol?

Don't worry about removing it though, comes off very easily really.
 
i ordered the isopropyl off the net. Quite odd as you can find isopropyl in the states at any pharmacy or supermarket. It's nifty stuff.
 
Okay, seems to be the best option. I'll leave it for another week til then. In the meantime, copied from another thread:

Can someone explain quickly what is meant by the push-pull configuration? Apart from the obvious, are we taking 2 fans mounted on the same fan bay, with the radiator sandwiched in between? If you only have the one fan, would it be better to set it up as a push or a pull until payday?
 
Okay, so one of those, two of these (need one for the current case fan - I can't believe how dusty it got over the last couple of months! My room is not as clean as I thought), and can anyone suggest which of these 120mm fans would work well with the corsair H50 kit?

Edit: I was looking at the Scythe Ultra Kaze, it being the ony 38mm fan OcUK seem to do - how great a difference would it make, and how great would the difference be if I were to link up two of them? That'd free up the corsair fan that came with the H50 to act as a second, top-mounted exhaust fan - would the fact that this guy got better/same temps mounting the radiator on the exhaust indicate that the ambient case temps bottlenecked the core temps with an additional heat-laden intake?

Edit 2: Why doesn't my speedfan log my GPU temps?

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Also, what's that temp2 @ 58C?
 
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