CPU CPU TIM on pins

Basically i have had to swap motherboards 3 times and when applying thermal compound last time i must have put too much on and it overfolwed onto the bottom. I used the thermal compound supplied with the gelid tranquilo adn wondered if my cpu is broken.

It was only powered on and never posted due to faulty motherboard but i don't know if that matters.

thanks

 

As long as the TIM was non-conductive (most say this on the packaging) you should be fine.

 

I've successfully washed a dollop of TIM out of a socket with Isopropyl Alcohol. I just kept pouring it on with a syringe until it firstly diluted then washed out. It took a lot of IPA but the mobo worked afterwards. That was with MX-2.

 

with the same cpu?

 

Yes.