No wonder you're getting high temps.
You put the Noctua fan in the wrong style.

The style u're using right now is you're exhausting the heat back to the casing.
Now what you have to do is turn the fan the other way around.

Make it to blow directly to the heatsink.

Another thing, don't use the 3 pin wire extender that you got with the packaging.
Just plug directly to the motherboard.

Hmm...
This shouldn't be true.

As my previous Pentium D 820 runs at 65degrees on idle on stock cooling with intel stock thermal paste.

When i change the heatsink to Noctua NH-U12F, the temps goes as low as 40degrees. That means 20 degrees differences compared to stock intel heatsink.

I wonder what's the problem with your system.

Post Edited for good faith.

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jul 3 2007, 11:36 PM

Arctic Cooling S1 doesn't work well with high CFM fans.
There won't be any differences at all even if u use high speed fans.
It's better to use mid-silent fans with it.

If you're long enough in air cooling heatsink, then you'll know why.
Any heatsink doesn't matter CPU or GPU heatsink that is originally made for passive mode won't work well with high CFM fans.

Examples: Scythe Ninja, Thermalright HR-01

So, don't waste your ear drum for hearing the noisy fans.

That's high.
Incredibly high.

Mind telling us what kind of processor are you using right now?

That must be a Pentium 4 520 i think.
Since it's a Pentium 4 2.8GHz LGA775.
It's using a prescott core. [A.K.A. PresHOTT]

Pentium 4 processors shouldn't go that far even on stock heatsink.
IINM, it should be in the area of 45 - 48 on idle.

Perhaps there's a problem with your casing airflow.
Or maybe your stock heatsink is clugged with a lot of dust.

Mind taking a picture on the internal of your rig so that we can advise you on what to do next?

Google up for SpeedFan.

Take out your heatsink, clean it up thoroughly with a water jetstream, clean up the fan blades clean up the base of the HSF from any old thermal paste, clean up the IHS of your processor, put some new thermal paste at a size of a rice grain on top of the processor IHS, DON'T Spread the thermal paste by yourself, just put back the heatsink on top of your processor, and leave it lock the HSF to your motherboard, then everything is done.

By doing this, it should lower down the temps of your processor and stop the overheating.

Owh and by the way, it's good if you can use a good thermal paste such as Arctic Cooling MX-2.
Don't use those white ceramique thermal paste, they're crap.

Whose method?

What will happen?
When the processor reaches it limits on heat, the motherboard will turn off everything.
But don't expect it to do the same thing over and over again by itself, as later on, one day you'll find your processor fried, then you would have to replace it with a new one.

Huh?
You're using Evercool VC-RE on your P35 chipset?

Not 100% True Actually.
As different motherboard shows the motherboard temperature to another different area.

HR-03 GT will still be more than RM150 even when it arrives malaysia.
Expect it should be not lower than RM190

Try to compare HR-03 Plus & HR-03 GT.
Do you see any differences?

Only a slight differences, which won't make HR-03 GT any lower than RM190.

That's possible.