Use white spirits to clean off thermal paste?

dagwoood · 24 Mar 2006 at 12:19

Is it advisable to use white spirits to clean the CPU and heatsink? On the Arctic Silver site, one of the items it says you can use is Mineral Spirits, but according to Google, in the UK we call it white spirits.

I know Isopropyl alcohol is recommended, but it's not cheap and I'll probably only need it this one time. White spirits is cheap and easily to get hold of.

Cheers, dagwoood.

dagwoood · 24 Mar 2006 at 20:15

Thanks for all the replies guys, it's appreciated.

I'll see if just using kitchen paper/soft cloth will do the trick. I know AMD recommend just using a soft cloth and cotton buds, but having never removed thermal paste, I don't know how hard it is to get off.

I'd assumed it wasn't easy because of all the different cleaning products that are available to remove the paste.

Thanks again, dagwoood.