alcohol

Forum discussion tagged with alcohol.
  1. J

    [SOLVED] Used Alcohol with moisturizer to clean cpu, should I be worried?

    HELP! Used Isop Alcohol with MOISTURIZER to clean Ryzen CPU. Do I need to redo and how much did I screw up Hello, I foolishly bought a 70 % Isop Alcohol with MOISTURIZER, and cleaned CPU thermal paste, PCB of the CPU, some parts of the motherboard, RAM golden contact pins, and of course the...
  2. KevNaja

    [SOLVED] Accidentally sprayed alcohol on my CPU pins

    So I was trying to clean off the thermal compound from the CPU with a 96% alcohol when I accidentally sprayed the pins. The pins have turned darker in color (I've let it dry for about an hour) but am not seeing any noticeable difference. I was thinking of testing it out by I read an article...
  3. C

    Question Keyboard Switch

    Some of my keyboard switches does not register sometimes, I already blow it and half press, it would work but would come back again. Can I use a 70% alcohol to clean directly the switches? It's okay to stain my keyboard since its only generic and will buy soon. Thanks!
  4. Zuce101

    [SOLVED] 70% medical alcohol for gpu cleaning

    I've recently bought a second hand rx 480 and i'm guessing the previous owner was a smoker and the card really smells. I'm planing on opening it up and cleaning it completely and replacing the thermal paste and pads. Would it be safe to use 70% medical alcohol? I know it's best to use IPA but...
  5. N

    Headphones switching sound to speakers

    Hi, recently my Sentey Artix USB headphones have been randomly switching my sound to my speakers and then after a few seconds, back to my headphones. I've had these headphones for about a year now, so they might just be old. Also, sometimes sound will start to sound like static and I will have...
  6. A

    AMD A10 Laptop transformed into AMD FX?

    I have a laptop called ASUS X550ZE-XX033D and I bought it for around $481. The specs when bought are as follows: AMD A10-7400P APU (Base 2,5 GHz/Turbo 3,4 GHz) 10 Compute Cores 4CPU+6GPU 4GB @1600 MHz (Dual Channel) Windows 8.1 Pro x64 Radeon R7 M265DX 15.6 inch Display 1TB Hard Drive @5400RPM...
  7. C

    if i buy the thor v2 what do i need to buy for it

    I know some stuff. But that stuff isn't this stuff. I'm going to buy the Thor v2 case and i already love it. But the downside is it needs parts that i have to purchase. The motherboard and the power supply is about all i know. What reliable power supply and motherboard can i get, or should i...