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today I'm going to show you guys how I clean my motherboards and my GPUs and also I'm going to do some tests before and after to see how much of a difference this really makes so today we're going to be cleaning this graphics card down and this motherboard with brake cleaner and CRC five five six well it's going to use alcohol it's going to be my usual method so what you want to do is you want to take the battery out of this motherboard here so there's no current going through it and then you want to start taking off the heatsink so let's start taking off all these heat sinks and then we'll get on to the next step now also before I start taking off heat sinks and stuff until I actually want to clean the socket out I just put a CPU in there and all this allows me to do is just make sure that I'm not going to bend any pins when I'm like being rough with this as we pulled this heatsink off here this is the main heatsink covering the vrm and also the Northbridge here on the x58 board now this pad actually doesn't really need to be replaced it's still in decent condition though if it is bad you can then just get it all off so I'll actually do it just quickly for this video so just take it all off and then we're going to replace it with a pad that we got off eBay for like a dollar now this is the Northbridge heat sink right here and usually a lot of the times with x58 this can get really crusty so I've got an old heat sink sorry an old socket cover here which is actually hard plastic and it does a really good job of getting off this crap around here so you just literally get you know in there get it all off and we're ready after that we'll be ready to apply the thermal paste now you may wish to use an alcohol wipe to help you in this process so now we can see here that this heatsink is pretty much really crusty so this is the final resort here this is getting a little sanding block this is like an old one that's been used quite a bit as sixty grit and we're just going to literally go ham on okay so that one took a little bit longer than usual but after you're done you just scrape it back with your fingernail and just make sure of the smooth look at much better now you can see the actual writing they're still on the heatsink so we've gotten through to the surface now and now we're ready to do the Southbridge so with the Southbridge you generally don't have to worry too much this arm they generally never get hot so just a quick a quick clean here you see here they even use a different type of thermal paste because it just really doesn't matter a whole lot on the Southbridge so for this next part we're going to loosen up all these screws on the back here usually you do this with the little screwdriver the big ones usually don't fit so let's get on with that all right so once you've undone all the screws the graphics card should come off like this and then you just unplug that a four pin connector there on the fan and now you're looking at what is essentially the fan plastic shroud there which is separated from the heatsink which is great because we can just clean this down without whole wipes we don't want to put brake cleaner on this because it's plastic and this here will just clean this down with brake cleaner get all the dust out of the fins there and then this here we will also be cleaning down with brake cleaner as well so upon pulling off the memory heat sinks and the vrm heatsink here these are actually pretty decent I've just got to get all the dust off that to make them look pretty good but otherwise they're in pretty decent Nick the only main thing here of course is the GPU die which has this pretty crap heatsink pasted on there and it looks terrible so we're going to clean that off both the GPU heatsink and the die then we'll put on some new heatsink pastes so let's get on with that also I'm going to quickly take these thermal pads off before I do this and now one good thing about these old-school cards is that they're just made so well you can see these thermal pads are still in pretty good damn condition for considering how old they are which they're letters cards like one how many years old now so I'm just going to put them back on this one and then we are going to clean this graphics card so for this next part we're just going to get some brake cleaner this is this stuff here and then essentially just hose down the parts okay so now is the next step we've just cleaned it down with brake cleaner so if the brake cleaner didn't take some stuff off it would have loosened it up so the alcohol wipes will get that stuff off but it will also take the brake cleaner off which is slightly corrosive so we want to get that off as well and so we're just going to give it a nice alcohol wiping down [Laughter] okay for this next step you want to make sure that your motherboard and you grab his card or whatever you're spraying down is completely dry before you continue on to the next step now you can just leave this stuff you know sitting somewhere overnight or you can put your heater on low and that'll dry it up really quickly and probably take like 20 minutes to dry everything up that's what I'm doing here so don't put your heater on high you don't want to destroy your but you know just put on low and let all this stuff dry up and then we'll be ready for the next step all right so now it's time to put the graphics card back together and the motherboard we'll start with a graphics card and just will put the vrm heatsink back on now this is the stuff that I use called CRC five five six now this will act as a something that will make it look cosmetically awesome when it's finished but also actors are protected and protect the components work is like a layer so yeah it's got two fold purpose I really love working with this stuff can highly recommend it and it won't short-circuit anything so let's get on with it you so this next part we're going to put some thermal paste on the what looks like the internal heat spread off this actually looks like they've done an IHS on the die which is kind of weird I mean I would deal it it if it was a thermal paste that they used underneath but even then it would take me a while I think on some of this big so I'm just gonna for what it's worth I'm just going to do a quick spread job here now a lot of people are like look dude you should be doing the pee method it's like it doesn't really matter honestly you know I've tested this stuff time and time again this method is so consistent you see here I'm just literally getting a last bit down and now we've got an even layer smooth layer going to work really well for the task so this next part we are going to put down the thermal pad here on the vrm heat sink and it's very easy we just line that up and we cut off enough there I mean that should be about right so we just cut that off and then we can put it on all right for this last part we're just gonna get some CRC five five six and just essentially just spray it on give it a light coat in there then just polish it down off without there's people are so there we go guys there's the finished product right there for both the gravis card and the motherboard you see they kind of look like they're brand-new now not only that I'm very confident in how they will perform as well so this is my method and let's get on with the final test now for the gravis cards see how that performs yeah Oh God we're going to look at some before and after temperatures when I tested the gravis card just straight before I cleaned it it was getting 74 degrees after I ran a full benchmarking UniGene Valley now this was at 26 degrees ambient temperatures with the custom fan profile set to 70% now after we clean this gravis card we got with a drumroll 64 degrees that's right we've got to tend to read rhop just out of changing the thermal paste and cleaning up this graphics card that's all we did and we've got a 10 degree drop which is freaking huge and this is apples to apples both times the temperatures in this room was 26 degrees Celsius and at both times the fan speeds were set to 70% so we've got apples to apples 10 degree drop freaking huge now another interesting thing about this GPU is that Nvidia back in this day went with an internal heat spreader and they decided to do what Intel's doing nowadays and that is glue it on with thermal paste in between the die and the heat spreader and I'm sure if I deleted this thing the temperatures would have dropped that much more as well though something like deleting a GPU it's kind of it would be a very tedious process something that I don't want to do on a 25-dollar graphics card even though I know you guys would love to see it I just really don't have time at the moment to chop apart a 25-dollar GPU and also risk breaking it in the process because with the CPUs I'm used to doing the vise method as opposed to the GPU I don't really know how to tackle that one I mean I actually did try hacking it up with my art knife and they gave up after like five minutes because it would have taken me a mammoth amount of time to do it so there we have it cleaning up your PC parts I can highly recommend it not only do you get a cosmetic enhancement but you also get a massive performance enhancement too now with that Northbridge on the motherboard I've actually tested this in the past and that's made a big difference as well and it's actually funny with this motherboard lineup the x58 lineup a lot of people were actually taking the heatsinks off as soon as they bought the product because they used cheap thermal paces you can see that was very hard that stuff is terrible so I don't even need to test that tell you guys that the results would be a lot better though that's about it for me today guys if you enjoyed this video then you know what to do hit that like button if you have any questions or comments about cleaning up your PC parts or anything in general if you just want to tell me something drop it in the comment section below and I'll read it and if you haven't already subscribe to tacky air city and I'll catch you in the next enthusiasts tech video very soon peace out for now bye you've got to get an Apple then you got to get another Apple then you go to compare them head-to-head that's gonna bruise damn like you know like the dapples are expensive you Brian you've got to go check out this guy's video he shows you how to spread thermal paste with that insane amount of pressure that he's putting on that PG a socket there and if you put it on an LG I saga with that much pressure your motherboard yeah