I have my 2.4 overclocked to 2.8 is this bad for it? Will it not last as long? It doesnt seem to be running hotter than normal, right around 95*f, and I consider that a great temp! Any info would be appreciated, thanks in advance. God bless Daniel Morcombe!

No you are fine and the the newer pentium 4's and Celerons have thermal heat protection on them anyhow so you can't burn the processor up because it will rest and go back to it's defualt speed. Yeah that is a great temp especially on the hot prescott cores which all Celeron D's are based on. You must have some good airflow in your case to overclock a celeron D and keep it under 100 degrees at the same time.

You have no idea how happy that made me to read that! Thanks so much for the info, if anybody else would like to add anything that would be great. God bless Daniel Morcombe!

Overclocking by itself is not bad. Two related issues make it bad sometimes: 1. heat 2. Other devices running higher than their speed and causing hang ups/ failure. (1) can be overcome by good heatsink, thermal paste, fans, air con in the room etc... (2) can be overcome by locking the PCI speeds if the motherboards support it. theoretically if you can provide sufficient cooling you must be able to hit any speed...but then thats theoretical only.

thanks, just an fyi under load the temp goes to 111-113, is that ok? God bless Daniel Morcombe!

That is fine as long as you aren't over 130 F you are good to go. But the less heat the cpu makes the lesser the heat in your system overall. I'm more of an Intel buff then an AMD buff but i'm catching up in that area. :) I tell you hot. On my old pc that I still use, I have an AMD K6-5 550mhz with a AMD Athlon XP 2100+ heat sink and fan on it and it's around 95 F to 100 F. On the stock K6-5 heat sink and fan I used to have on it, it ran 110F to 118 F. Those Chomper cores run hot anyhow which shows and they wern't good overclockers at all. Celerons for the longest time wern't good overclockers until the got onto the northwood core which runs cooler then the new prescott cores. So if you can overclock a prescott core with that high under 120 F then that is great.

As long as you've taken precautions (locked agp/pci if possible, etc.), then you'll be fine. As long as you have good air flow and good temps. I'm not sure about your cpu, but the max thermal limit for my pentium 4 northwood is 70C (158F)...I believe that's when it throttles itself down to cool itself. My cpu sits at 30C-34C idle, and never goes past 50C under full load (i'm overclocked too). Your temps are fine, so you're doing well. A problem I ran into was an overheating northbridge...so you should check and make sure it's not overheating. If you're overclocking your memory, you'll want to check them as well. Have you run any programs to test your stability? prime95?