First Successful Overclock !

congrats, I too had problems OC'ing my AM2 3800+ any higher than 2.2 from 2.0, but my 4300 goes to 3.15 nicely

ya i was pretty happy, lol. I read that 70 degrees was considered warm, and 65 to 70 should be ok, as long as i dont take it higher.

I also scored 9200 in 3dmark 06. All in all im' a happy camper. Glad to see u got a good overclock too karlb

actually tat stresses the cpu way more than orthos does, besides i can assure you NO videogame will stress your cpu to a 100%, besides that 66c is not that bad, since the e4300 have a tjunction of 100c (when they startt throttling). try to take it up to 3.0ghz , and see if the temps go up?, dont even raise the vcore, u shouldnt have 2 ;p

and yeah the lil man is up 2 the task!! http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=202673

@op and btw do u have a 8800gtx? or wat video card do u have?

well bro i'd say give it a try, and if u dont see the temps going up... then why not do it you kno what im sayin?

Congratulations on the free CPU Cycles! Hopefully I'll be just like you in a couple weeks, but I've got a quick question for you: How do you like that P5K? Find any issues yet? I've been set on another board for my build, but I hear (see) quite a few people loving that board. I'm not usually one for early adaptation, but it's starting to sound like a good idea. Your thoughts?

the board is pretty nice, although if you get a gts or higher you will probably need a extra long ide cable, as mine that came witth the mobo was BARELY long enough

I like the motherboard because it supports the next gen chipsets (45nm) so i will be able to upgrade in the future. It's also got quite a few overclocking options. It was very easy to overclock.

As a matter of fact, i overclocked mine without even updating the bios. I'm not even sure if i'm using the latest bios or not =P. But it's working so that's all that matters for now.

The negative side, is that i don't think it supports ddr3. You may want to double check, but i'm pretty sure it doesn't. However this wasn't a huge concern for me.

One more thing, i don't think it supports pci express 2.0. Which is from what i understand supposed to allow more power to the video card. I'm hoping that they will be backwards compatible for at least a 1 1/2 years, but we'll see. Those are the only two negative things i can think of.

Congratulations and welcome to the club. 2.4 beats 1.8 anyday. If the bug gets you, and its likely, the stock heatsink should do fine up to 2.7 to 3.0 in a pinch. There are a lot of good aftermarket HSF's out there that don't cost an arm and leg and would be a very good investment. Oh, and while 3.4 and above are quite doable, 3.2 with good cooling is quite tolerable too!