Honestly I thought water on electronics was pretty much guaranteed death. But you are fine just putting it in the dishwasher, as long there is no current going through anything.

Yeah. Do NOT do this at home.

I mean, technically it works, but there is a whole lot of preparation in that... technically. Like removing all the heatsinks for example.
Just don't do this at home.

id already fail and forget the bios battery and notice half way in that its a fucking notebook.

It's not at all just the BIOS battery. It ALL the heatsinks. Like the VRM, chipset, and CPU heatsinks. Those are kind of a pain to have to deal with.
The guy in this video is an extreme over clocker, they remove ALL the heatsinks, all the time.

Even on a RAM stick there is a heatsink. Same with vid cards (they have about 4-5 heatsinks). Best just not do this at home.

When I was in the military we used to clean electronic parts in sonic cleaners. But those weren't like the parts we use at home. They were stripped down, industrial strength parts.



Do NOT try this at home.

Here is my motherboard....it's relatively old and... simple. The two heatsinks on the left are connected to each other by a copper tube, and need to be removed, both at the same time.
All three heatsinks I've shown also have thermal tape, thermal pads, or thermal paste. Sometimes like with thermal tape, it doesn't WANT to come off.

There are also about 3-4 jumpers on this motherboard which have to be removed as they will get "washed off" the motherboard in a dishwasher.
Also present are 2-3 switches, which will not dry like open air components. Here you would need electrical contact cleaner, to properly dry them.

Trust me, unless you have to money to replace the component you are attempting to clean in the dishwasher, don't do it.

Vid cards are even worse, they have numerous heatsinks, and are mechanically much more complicated to disassemble.

Just blow the dust out with canned air or an oil-less compressor, once every 5-6 months and you will be fine.

often its not water that kills hardware in the first place, its only if u dont make sure u dry it 100% before use - like imagine water left in gpu slot and u install gpu and turn on system

i clean my hardware with a straw taped to my vacuum cleaner - might sound stupid but very efficient

i have a can with compressed air but man it sucks, doesnt do anyway really

Keep in mind that video wasn't for even the average user, but pretty isolated for extreme overclockers. The point was to clean vaseline off, not dust. I agree don't do this at home as just a regular maintenance.

I've been using my air compressor and non-chlorinated brake cleaner for quite some time and have never had any issues.

People have washed computer parts with water for years without problems. It only needs to dry completely before turning on. There's a post on OCN where a guy uses a shower and washes off everything. His PC works fine after it dried. Mind you he washed it in parts.

Damn sounds cool. I've got to Google that now. Ultrasonic cleaners... Sounds like a good business to run.