Question Thermal paste on AMD Socket

[brotherwhoneedshelp]

Hello!
While I was troubleshooting and changing CPUs a small amount of thermal paste dropped from my hand in to the CPU socket. I tried to clean it as good as possible, but a little bit still remains. Does this pose any danger to my motherboard or CPU? They both work fine with this, but I want to make sure I won't have any issues in the future.

The thermal paste I was using is cooler master thermal compound and the wraith prism pre applied thermal paste.

If you can notice it seems to be stuck between the two pins.

 

[Lutfij]

Take isoprpyl alcohol and a toothbrush and see if you can dislodge it from that pin hole. A pin would also help. Thermal paste is non conductive so it won't be much of a threat. In short it shouldn't be there but we shouldn't act like nothing can happen from it being there.

 

[brotherwhoneedshelp]

Take isoprpyl alcohol and a toothbrush and see if you can dislodge it from that pin hole. A pin would also help. Thermal paste is non conductive so it won't be much of a threat. In short it shouldn't be there but we shouldn't act like nothing can happen from it being there.

a toothbrush might be a little too big to fit in, but i will try. How difficult/safe do you think is it to remove the whole socket if everything else fails?

 

[Encryption+]

You could also try a clean, small paintbrush instead of the toothbrush. It might be easier to get into the hole.