Is there such thing as "safe, minor overclocking" for my AK31A v3.1 / Athlon XP 1600+?

[NickSD]

I just got a Shuttle AK31A rev 3.1 with an Athlon XP 1600+. Right now, with no overclocking of any kind, I get 39C idle and 47C after 2 hours of CPUBurn running. Is there any simple thing I can change (FSB?) that will give me a slight gain in performance without having the worries of hard-core overclocking? Just curious if I can get an extra bit of performance out of the system for free...

Thanks

Nick

 

[Rahminator]

Raise the fsb to 140 and you will get an XP 1700. You most likely won't need to boost vcore, but you can give it +.025 just to be on the safe side. At 140fsb your PCI clock will be 35 MHz, or within 5% of stock so you most likely won't encounter any problems unless you have some really crappy devices.