I RECENTLY PURCHASED A NEW P.C. WITH THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS.
AMD ATHLON 1800+XP CPU, MOUNTED ON A GIGABYTE GA-7ZXE(SOCKET A FSB 200/266 CPU) MOTHERBOARD.IN AN AMD APPROVED CASE, FAN CAME WITH CPU SO I ASUME ITS UP TO THE JOB.
512Mb RAM
64Mb NVIDIA GEFORCE 2 GRAPHICS CARD
80Gb 7200rpm HARD DRIVE
O/S WINDOWS XP PRO.
MY FIRST QUESTION IS THIS
IN THE BIOS THE CPU IS SET TO RUN AT 133MHz WHICH HAS THE CPU RUNNING AT ITS OPTIMUM SPEED,IS THERE ANY NOTICABLE BENEFIT IN OVERCLOCKING, AS I ONLY USE THE P.C FOR A BIT OF LIGHT OFFICE WORK, INTERNET AND THE ODD GAME AND IF SO HOW FAST CAN IT SAFELY BE OVERCLOCKED IN THIS SET-UP.
IS THERE ANY WAY OF CHECKING THE TEMP OF THE CPU WITHOUT REBOOTING AND LOOKING IN THE BIOS

Hey, your puter is fast enough.

With some sugery, you can oc your cpu to Athlon 2000 XP. You don't get much out of it.

The human body will not notice any difference less than THIRTY PERCENT INCREASE>

Be aware that the XP chip is locked and it takes alot of patience and steady hands to unlock.You can try increasing your FSB slightly which will produce more heat and not very much increase.Your best bet is to do full research on overclockers websites to determine the cause/effect/how to and whatever else you wish to know.Basically the pros and cons of overclocking.Temperature monitores are out there one of the better ones is "motherboard monitor" but be sure to read the documentation it requires different set up for different MOBO.
good luck

you should only overclock if you have the need for more power (and plan on getting a new system sooner). It decreases the life of your components, and you need to worry about more stuff (like cooling...adding more fans, bigger heatsinks, etc). Since you have a fast system that won't be doing much work, you don't need to overclock it.

Want to monitor the temperature.....

motherboard monitor 5

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Not to sound rude or anything,but I must ask you
this!,why do you need all this stuff?,no matter how
fast you make a computer it will always run as fast
as the person using it!(we tell them what to do!).
Ex.I now!,use a mac,but before that and still to this
day my dream machine is a dual p3 sgi 320(nt
4.0) with 1gb ram/100gb storage,firewire dvd/
rw,but the bottom line is this I don't make movies I
don't need that much power,so I bought the next
best thing for what I need!.
So here's what I say,enjoy the fruits of your labour
as they are!,you've got a killer pc for what you
do,leave it as is!(for now),if you get to the point
where your doing so much it keeps crashing,than
think about cranking it's power