Given the age of the system it does make sense to refresh the thermal paste as part of the cleaning process. Clearly your logic board is quite dusty! So it was time.
Use a soft paint brush to scrub lightly the surface of the logic board to loosen the dust and then use a can of can’ed air to blow the dust away. Use short blasts and don’t tilt the can to much as you don’t want the liquid to spray out. You’ll also need to dust out the heat sink fins and fans.
As for refreshing the paste here is what I would use: [product|IF179-010] and to properly clean the surfaces I would use [product|IF179-023] or I would use isopropyl alcohol 85% or better and then toluene to finish the task.
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Unlike Apples paste Arctic Silver is slightly conductive so its important to not be as messy as the assemblers of your system where. Here’s a good guide on how: [guide|744]
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'''Unlike Apples paste Arctic Silver is slightly conductive''' so its important to not be as messy as the assemblers of your system where. Here’s a good guide on how: [guide|744]
Given the age of the system it does make sense to refresh the thermal paste as part of the cleaning process. Clearly your logic board is quite dusty! So it was time.
Use a soft paint brush to scrub lightly the surface of the logic board to loosen the dust and then use a can of can’ed air to blow the dust away. Use short blasts and don’t tilt the can to much as you don’t want the liquid to spray out. You’ll also need to dust out the heat sink fins and fans.
As for refreshing the paste here is what I would use: [product|IF179-010] and to properly clean the surfaces I would use [product|IF179-023] or I would use isopropyl alcohol 85% or better and then toluene to finish the task.
Unlike Apples paste Arctic Silver is slightly conductive so its important to not be as messy as the assemblers of your system where. Here’s a good guide on how: [guide|744]