Noctua NH-U12F

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Limp Gawd
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I bought this HSF several months ago and am just now putting the new Conroe build together.

For whatever reason, the parts list for the Noctua lists thin RED washers for the LGA775 and thin White washers for some AMD mounts. Naturally, my parts bag does NOT have any thin red washers.

I have no clue why they specify the different washers.

Anyone else use the NH-U12F and LGA775? Did you have this issue? If so, did you just use the white washers and forget it?

I hate to be held up at this stage. I've been waiting 3 months just to find time to build this thing.

The vendor is querying Noctua about it, but I'm anxious to continue the build.
 
Go to a local hardware store and get some thin plastic washers. Should work just fine.
 
I have the thin white ones that came for the AMD mount. The drawing seems to indicate the red ones are thicker than the white ones. Dunno if that's important or not. Nor how much thicker (if any) they are.

Wonder why they are different?

Anyone here with the Noctua NH-U12F than can tell me the diff between them?
 
many times the difference to in count. the thickness might be different aswell but if you need say Four and you have for of a dissimilar color i would just us them instead. i know that on my danger den tdx i was given four thin washers for 949 four thin aswell as four thik for any other socket, thin behind motherboard and thick in front. i used all thin on my 2500 athlon-m and there was no difference.

sorry for rambling, i just think it was to avoid confusion on how many washers to use.
 
I agree with Tangent. I am willing to bet the whites ones will work. Normal mounting hardware does not need to be exact, just simular. As long as you get a even mount with good pressure you should be fine.
 
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