ASUS motherboards for example, come with ASUS PC-Probe which is far more accurate then universal monitors.
Recommended software To check for basic statistics regarding your CPU, I strongly suggest that you download the CPU-Z utility from: And get Speedfan for closely monitoring your temperatures, but before this, look around the CDs your motherboard came with for a specific utility for monitoring them.
Having it at above 60 degrees shortens the lifespan but that shouldn't be a worry if you don't plan on using your CPU for more then 2 years. But as a general rule, you wouldn't want your temperature at any more then 75 (degrees celsius) under load. There is no exact temperature limit for any CPU. mid-range to high-end air cooling is known to be able to OC to around 60% while stock cooling can only reach 30% at max (my E2160 has stock cooling and a 25% OC). If you want really high OCing capacity of 70%+ then nothing other then a water or liquid cooling system will do. Ideally, you'd want these motherboards to OC on: Intel P35 Intel X35 Intel P45 These motherboards are not so good at OCing: Intel 946 chipset (though I personally have it and managed a 25% OC without any problems) Perhaps the biggest problem with OCing any component is overheating. OCing RAM is notoriously tough and risky, but you can deal with this issue by decreasing the FSB:DRAM ratio we will be discussing later. Also note that when you OC CPUs, you are also OCing your motherboard (in which the FSB is implanted) and your RAM. Another thing is that we would be using the BIOS to perform all our tweaks, there are various softwares out there, but they only support a limited number of motherboards and are not that reliable. First of all, I would like to mention that OCing of Intel CPUs can be done in two main fundamental ways: 1) Increasing the Front Side Bus (FSB), which means to increase the data transfer rate between the CPU and RAM 2) Increasing the multiplier, this option isn't available to most users since almost all Intel CPUs apart for the Pentium Extreme Edition and Core 2 Extreme have their multipliers locked.
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