Ok so I'm running a P4 2.53 Northwood Core B with 1 Gig of PC 2700 DDR on an ASUS P4S800D-X motherboard.
Up until today I've never overclocked anything before, so I entered the BIOS and set the CPU frequency to manual and slowly upped the frequency from 133 to 159 (at 160 the system wouldn't boot). This netted me a clock speed of 3.02 GHZ . Initial tests seem to indicate that the computer will run fine at this speed (although I need to do further burn in tests). The temperatures don't seem to get any higher than 38C under load. The VCORE voltage fluxes from 1.56 to 1.607 (which it did running at stock speeds).
My questions is other than watching my temps and ensuring the system is stable can I in any way damage my processor by running it a 3.02 GHZ?
Up until today I've never overclocked anything before, so I entered the BIOS and set the CPU frequency to manual and slowly upped the frequency from 133 to 159 (at 160 the system wouldn't boot). This netted me a clock speed of 3.02 GHZ . Initial tests seem to indicate that the computer will run fine at this speed (although I need to do further burn in tests). The temperatures don't seem to get any higher than 38C under load. The VCORE voltage fluxes from 1.56 to 1.607 (which it did running at stock speeds).
My questions is other than watching my temps and ensuring the system is stable can I in any way damage my processor by running it a 3.02 GHZ?