Question Dryed thernal paste stuck in cpu am4 socket

[billymichael1999]

I was replaceing my ryzen cpu with a more powerful cpu i got thermal paste stuck in the middle of the cpu socket whare the small amount of chips are i cant get the paste out because its squished in between the small chips

 

[TJ Hooker]

What kind of paste? If it's not conductive or capacitive, there's nothing dangerous about leaving it there if you're not able to get it out.

 

[billymichael1999]

What kind of paste? If it's not conductive or capacitive, there's nothing dangerous about leaving it there if you're not able to get it out.

it would be the paste thats from the thermal pad that came with the ryzen 3 1200 cooler

 

[TJ Hooker]

Hmm, can't find much info on it. Most paste is non-conductive. Not sure about capacitive. Are you not able to get at it with something like a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol?

 

[drea.drechsler]

it would be the paste thats from the thermal pad that came with the ryzen 3 1200 cooler

Me personally...I'd leave it there vs. risking any damage to the MLCC's in that tight spot.

I can't believe AMD would allow use of conductive paste on consumer-market coolers. And any dielectric property difference compared to the warm air normally in that space would be insignificant to the DC voltages those MLCC's are filtering.

I'm reminded of the YouTube Video posted by The Verge on building a PC. The guy absolutely munged the TIM all over the CPU till it had to have made a total mess under and around it... yet that PC still performed once he was done. Amazing.

I'd just leave it.

 

[TJ Hooker]

MLCC

What does MLCC stand for?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Me personally...I'd leave it there vs. risking any damage to the MLCC's in that tight spot.

I can't believe AMD would allow use of conductive paste on consumer-market coolers. And any dielectric property difference compared to the warm air normally in that space would be insignificant to the DC voltages those MLCC's are filtering.

What does MLCC stand for?

Multi-Layer Chip Capacitor

 

[billymichael1999]

Hmm, can't find much info on it. Most paste is non-conductive. Not sure about capacitive. Are you not able to get at it with something like a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol?
[/QUOT. I got it out but im not sure if thare is still some small debris im afraid to even put my new cpu in

 

[billymichael1999]

Hmm, can't find much info on it. Most paste is non-conductive. Not sure about capacitive. Are you not able to get at it with something like a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol?

I got most of it out but im not sure if thare is any debris left

 

[billymichael1999]

I did put rubbing alchaool with a qtip the near the middle of the cpu socket just incase i dont know if rubbing alcohol makes thermal paste ineffective

 

[billymichael1999]

I fixed the issue a while back but i had to buy a new board due to motherboard damage from a bent
Mm2 pin

 

[TJ Hooker]

What's an "Mm2 pin"?

 

[billymichael1999]

What's an "Mm2 pin"?

Sorry for late reply but mm2 is a chip on the board that deals with the pcb power well its pins are damaged im not sure my pc repair told me it would be impossible for it to be desoldered as thare is no connections on the back