I want to clean the memory stick. Can I wash it with alcohol?

Yes, because there are risks in using anhydrous alcohol, 75% medical alcohol is used. After wiping, please pay attention to dry it (dry it conservatively for one day, and blow it with a fan in a hurry) before plugging it back into the motherboard, otherwise it may cause hardware short circuit.

Although alcohol can be used to clean memory chips, it is totally unnecessary. Memory stick belongs to hardware without mechanical structure, closed chip and circuit, with extremely low calorific value (non-overclocking memory), and the dust on the surface will not affect the work. Even if you love cleaning, you can clean up the dust on the surface with a brush.

Extended data

Memory stick is an indispensable part of computer. Historically, there was main memory on the computer motherboard, and the memory stick was an extension of main memory. In the future, the computer motherboard has no main memory, and the CPU depends entirely on memory chips. Everything on the external memory must be used by the memory to be effective.

Under the same computer configuration, the larger the memory, the faster the computer will be. If you often play games, you will feel that, for example, when you want to enter a game, if your memory is larger, it will be faster. On the contrary, if the memory is smaller, you have to wait slowly.

Generally speaking, the function of memory chip in computer is equivalent to a bridge, which is used to exchange data between hard disk, motherboard, graphics card and other hardware and processors. All computer data is transmitted to the processor through the memory stick and the processor.

The memory has the fastest reading speed and storage speed, and the direct exchange with the data bus on the motherboard is very slow. You can also think of memory as a data cache, and having a cache is more conducive to the speed of computer processing data.