My AMD Athlon 64x2 upgrade

[markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org (markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org)]

> markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org writes:
>
>> I upgraded to 64 bit dual core AMD Athlon 64X2 with 4gig of ram with two
>> monitors on an nVidia card.
>
> I've got an Athlon64 FX2 in my myth frontend.  I'm running FC6 x86_64.
> (I tried Fedora 7 but the new firewire stack in F7 doesn't work and
> wont talk to my cablebox).  The only issue I've had with it is that
> the supplied CPU fan sounds like a jet engine when I'm watching HDTV,
> so I'm looking at new CPU cooling systems that might be much quieter.
>
> Does anyone have experience with AMD (AM2 socket) cooling systems?
> Any recommendations, or anti-recommendations?  Anyone tried something
> like http://www.zalmanusa.com/ ?
>

My system has a funky set of copper tubing that I assume is being used to
cool it.

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