Solved Ethyl Alcohol Is It Safe Electronics Skills

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I need to clean my GPU PCB and currently the only thing i have home is Ethyl Alcohol Sanitary 96% Partially Denaturated (Long name cuz I want to give as much info on it as possible). Will this damage my GPU? Update (08/18/2018)

@danj what about the board itself https://i.imgur.com/1GDLVPd.jpg is it safe?

I assume you are cleaning the thermal paste off of your GPU chip and its heat sink. Ethyl Alcohol will cut through most oils and will clean the thermal paste off. But you should use a stronger solvent like toluene afterwards to clean off the residual materials off the chip & heat sink. Denaturation is when additives are added to make the alcohol not drinkable its this additive that will leave a trace on the surface.

@john729 unusual to use ethyl alcohol but absolutely safe around the boards etc. and perfectly okay to remove your thermal paste with it. You got to use what you got and it’ll work.

ethyl alcohol is pretty much grain alcohol —plus poison so you can’t drink it without going blind. Yes, you can use it to clean stuff.