Overclocking is good. I ran my p4 2.0a up to 2.8 with standard air cooling on an Abit Sr7-8x. Now that I have it watercooled, I run at 2.4ghz all the time. I haven't tried to push above 2.8 though as my motherboard's fsb is not proported to be all that stable about 150mhz. That new springdale chipset is sure looking to be a great deal for the price. I will probably try to overclock my 9700np once I make sure it is stable and get some watercooling on it.