Okay i'm using NH-U12F, and the performance is so-so, slightly lower than my stock AM2 hsf by 1-3 degrees. I checked the contact of the heatsink base and the heatspreader on my proccessor, i found it to have an amazing contact. Half the size of an un-cook grain of rice spreaded evenly. But how come the performance is not as expected? I touched the heatsink fin and it is not even hot, the air that blew tru the fins were cool. The air from the hsf for my GC is hot.

The temperature of the proccessor at idle is 53 degrees while my 8800GTS idles at 52 degrees which should not be right since G80 GPU tends to be running hotter. Btw the rig is in an air-conditioned room.

,May 13 2007, 03:48 AM]I am sure it's installed properly. I seen the base of the hsf and the heatspreader on the cpu. The amount of tim used is also sufficient. I touched the base. It's slightly warm but certainly not 40 degrees for sure. I touched the heatpipe and it's cold. I installed the hsf 180 degrees too.

,May 16 2007, 07:17 PM]Okay updates guys.

So 1 day when i came back from school i removed my NH-U12F again due to the high temperature i'm getting. Re-applied some AS5 and re-attached it. The temps i'm getting now are 40-ish which is lower than my previous temp even before this the AS5 were already sinked in.

While doing the whole process i actually took sometime viewing the heatsink. 1 thing though that didn't amuse me but rather made me disappointed is that the base of the heatsink is quite thick. If you guys check your NH-U12F you would realised that they(Noctua) could actually cut off the raised-up base and thus reducing the length between the proccessor's heat spreader and the heatpipes.

I wonder if i could lap the base off 

Hi, just a quickie.

Is it normal for HD0 to go above 50? thanks

Mine is considered high, but urs is way too cool

Hmm, regarding harddisk temp, there is a very nice place to read about it
PDF LINK or HTML LINK Without Graph

Read it you will see that harddisk tend to spoil at low temperature at about 20 degree++, LOL

Why so lazy?
You dont need to read all anyway.
Here is for the temperature part ONLY.

Okay about my NH-U12F. Remember guys when you pull out the sticker from the bottom
of your heatsink base? I remembered the base was abit blurry and weird looking unlike polished copper which was smooth. I cleaned it with arctic cleaner 1 & 2 and it remained like that.

Today i removed it for some reason and the base was the same. So i took a scotch cloth and some arctic clean. Applied some arctic clean 2 and rub for sometime and then suddenly i noticed those weird things that look like glue are gone. Now the base is smooth. Not sure if that was affecting the temps, but i am unable to check it now as my PSU is under RMA and currently left without a rig.

Opps sorry to make it clear it looks like glue residue but when i ran my finger tip across it it was smooth, flat and not sticky.

I also test to check whether the heatpipe is working or not. I blew cool air to the heatsink fins and touched the base. Result: it was cold.

I can't be sure yet so waiting for my rig to test on.

I noticed the arctic cleaner 2 corrosive when i forgot to wipe off a dot of it from my laptop's processor. Then 1 small spot there shiny and different looking then the surrounding.

I have big problem!! my CPU temperature is too high..always around 65 - 70 celcius ..dun noe what to do.. I can't play any game or else the temperature will reach 70 n then I'hh hear a long BEEP BEEP sound.. help me please

i need passive cooling system for my am2. need very low dB but cool. Any suggestion for aftermarket cooling?

Noctua fan do have passive HS...the NH-U12...without the F is the passive HS...only RM180 from irangan bulk... you can't get it elsewhere except irangan bulk...anyway, the NH-U12F is very silent and only RM210 also from irangan bulk...that mean the fan is only cost you RM30 if purchase the NH-U12F...if the fan purchase separately, it will cost RM65... try figure out...

hey !!
I am using Toshiba Laptop A100 (bought from UK) and I suspect there is something wrong. I used speedfan and check and here's the results

HD0: 48C
Temp1: 93C
Temp2: 95C
Core 0: 95C
Core 1: 94C

This is terrible right?

I bought laptop from Malaysia..toshiba brand too but its M100 and it was perfect till I came to UK and kena stolen.. zzz

I have even a black mark on the surface of the laptop (beside touchpad). This is because my hands are on the surface for too long..

Any help to reduce the temperature?

I have just reformatted the computer and it is still same.. the bottom of the notebook is extremely hot..

okay.. i download and here is the results..

Tjuntion: 100c
core0: 66c
core1: 65c

i just switch on the comp and it is not that hot yet but still the temperature is already quite high..

will the laptop cooler pad cause some noise? i mean very noisy..

the core temp temperature was measured when my laptop just restarted... what is Tjunction anyway?

i switch on my laptop for 10 mins and the temperature now is

Tjuntion 100c
core 0: 94c
core 1: 94c

TOSHIBA
Genuine Intel(R) CPU
T2400 @ 1.83GHz
1.83GHz, 1.00GB of RAM

CPU fan is running well..

thanks for helping me to do some research..

any recommendation where to send it to check?

I am in UK now and will be goin back Malaysia next week.. I bought this notebook from UK and it really sucks..