PC Processors

[coltonw023456]

so i got thermal paste on my cpu pins from the person i got it from and i could't get it off so i put it in the system and ran it seems to work fine but i took it out and tryed to clean it but won't come off so then i seen it was in my cpu socked on the board so i'm wondering how to fix this issue and would it effect performace?

[mstfbsrn980]

Generally, thermal pastes do not have electrical conductivity. For this reason, I think you will not have a problem. In addition, your situation does not affect performance. While cleaning the thermal paste, you may also damage the motherboard or the CPU PINs.

[coltonw023456]

So i should just leave it go ?

[mstfbsrn980]

Yes, it looks clean enough already.

[coltonw023456]

Okay thank you