Thank you! I should’ve highlighted that these aren’t only things I make use of; Bryan over at Tech Yes City has praised GD900 thermal paste, lives off his PSU tester, and swears by multipurpose cleaner!

The low speed ones might be x1 risers; these x4 risers have never had a problem hitting >2500MB/s on PCIe 3.0 drives rated for it. I couldn’t resist reusing the grungy mouse! Especially since I was featuring the cleaner that powered through that…whatever that was 🤣

I will keep the 4x riser in mind. This video is a must-have tool for beginner flippers like myself.

The rest is water. I use 70% instead of 91% because it tends to, in my experience, lift and clean grime a bit better. It also actually disinfects better than 91% if you ever need to use it as an antiseptic lol Just takes marginally longer to dry than 91% owing to the (obviously) lower volatility.

@@doesitgame But you use it on PCBs and everything? Do you have any recommendations of like ESD-safe fabric or brushes for PCBs/motherboards and such? Good video btw! :) I just got a great deal on 20 PCs from the haswell era that I'm intending to flip. Been building and tinker with computers for like 25 years but never done any deep cleaning of parts except swapping thermal paste or used compressed air or air compressors to clean dust. Never flipped PCs either so I'm a bit new to this still. :)

I sure do! PCBs, heat spreaders, cold plates, even bare silicon dies. I just wait a few extra minutes to make sure it’s all vapored off. I just use a nylon bristle brush from Harbor Freight when I really need to scrub PCBs. For the most part, though, just adjusting the spray nozzle to a solid stream does an adequate job blasting crud off of PCBs.

And thank you!