Does anyone have experience with this particular configuration? Or can you point me to a web site with the info? Many thx!Billg

Have zero experience with pentium 4 systems but good places to look at is www.overclockers.com, www.hardforums.com www.xtremesystems.org for an example. Search those forums you will find a lot of information.

Not that board, but most P4 chips are happy to overclock. I wouldn't be surprised if you got an easy 3.0-3.2-3.4 ghz with a little tweaking.I've got cheap generic PC-2700 ram, and I've already had my cheapy 2.4 prescott up to 3.2 without really trying. I'm sure it would go higher if I had better ram. If you had any problems, it would probably be video or ram related before the CPU...Intel don't hardly make a *bad* cpu any more. Even if it's low marked. Most low marked are good cores. I could count the bad ones I've heard of on one hand..If you really want to clock up, you will want to change your ram divider for DDR-266,instead of DRR-333. 1:1 instead of 5:4, or whatever... That way, you will downclock the ram so it ends up about normal speed when the CPU is overclocked. Also, you might need to lock down the PCI/AGP to 33/66 instead of sync...Etc...Read as much info on the web as you can before you start. Overclock.com, etc are good sites. Typing "overclocking" on google will get you a boatload of hits. Be careful with volt modding. Thats the riskiest part, and not for beginners. I would leave voltage at stock until you really know what is going on. Severly overvolting a P4 will eventually kill it. IE: the P4 "sudden death syndrome" This applied to both northwoods and prescotts, but even more the prescotts. In fact, many prescott boards have deleted the volt mod option. Mine doesn't have it... MK

wow, a reply that has substance, not the brown stuff that comes out of the second hole of the bull. Thank you. It'll take me a while to digest this, quite frankly, but thank you for taking the time to help. WOW, too cool....rgdsbillg

Those board is a better play to ask because there peoples primary interest is overclocking their systems not flight simming :)Also you don

The simplest way is to increase your FSB speed setting in the BIOS.I run my P4PE at 155 / 388, the default is 133 / 333.This is with the standard fan and cooling.That would turn your P4 2.4 into a P4 2.8.I've been running this way for a year with no problems...You are now also overclocking your memory.. so if you get instability,you may want to go back a bit... YMMV!