I would first upgrade your cooling system on your CPU, most OEM heatsinks and fans, are not up to the task of even the modest of overclocking. But if you must without upgrading your cooling system, I would first set your alarms and thermal shutdowns in your computers BIOS, so you can save your machine if a pending melt down is near. Your board was featered in the Spring 2004 PC Modding Magazine, you should be able to find this at any of your local stores. All though they ran the board with a P4 3.0 and a P4 3.2, they did run your processer on a ASUS P4P8X. This should at least send you in the right direction. This Issue actually ran a slew of boards and pentium processers on everything from the 2.4 P4 processer on up and overclocked them all with detailed Benchmark results. I recommend this issue to anybody. As alway's though every processer is different in there own little way, one P4 2.4 might overclock better then another P4 2.4. Motherboards can react the same way. So use caution and don't be surprised if you have conficting results. Your flip side to the reality side. Newt