Thermal paste overload!

[gamingguy27]

I got thermal paste with my mastercool lite 120 and it came with mastergel so when I applied it, I applied too much and got on the sides of my processor and when I took it off to see I saw 3 pins tops have thermal paste on it? What should I do? Should I return it to where I bought it from and exchange it for a new one? Thank you

 

[gamingguy27]

Also I applied 70% ipropshyl alchol and took it off the sides but it doesn’t look like it came off as it looks like a little fade now

 

[Doctor Rob]

most thermal pastes are not conductive. so clean it up a bit and you should be fine. BUT you really should not be using 70% alcohol as it leaves residue use 90%+. I would use a q tip and gently clean it. you only need a pea sized amount in the middle of the CPU (more if you have a Threadripper CPU)

 

[gamingguy27]

I have 14 day warranty I am going to return it and exchange it for a new one, also are the holes where you put the cpu injured from what I’m telling you or no?

 

[gamingguy27]

Also as I placed the mastercool lite 120 on the cpu I think some of the thermal paste got off and landed near the socket on the motherboard I cleaned it with a q rip with the 70% alchol and quickly dried it is that ok? And does the thing with the cooler master go into the cpu fan?

 

[gamingguy27]

Btw it was really little on the motherboard and I barely touched it

 

[Barty1884]

Warranty is unlikely to apply for outright user error - MB, nor CPU vendors or retailers are going to warrant you putting too much thermal paste on a CPU.

How did you manage to get thermal paste IN the socket?

Clean it up, the best you can (90+% alcohol) and learn from this mistake.

 

[gamingguy27]

Not in the holes no thermal paste, it was just on sides of the cpu but looked like it but was actually dust my bad

 

[gamingguy27]

There is still thermal paste on the side of the cpu but very little and it’s on the black line around the cpu

 

[gamingguy27]

I don’t know how to remove the thermal paste off the black part