Recommended OC-capable FSB 800 Socket 478 Motherboard?

[CKTurbo128]

I'm looking to upgrade my brother's PC at the moment. My brother currently has a Dell Dimension 4500, which has the following specs.:

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (Northwood) Processor, FSB 400
Intel 845E Motherboard
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
2 x PC3200 512 MB (Currently Running at PC2100 Speeds)

My brother wants to upgrade his PC (mostly for speed improvements in general PC tasks), but since he is running on a tight budget, I figured that I should first replace the old 845E motherboard (which has absolutely no OC options, since it's Dell) and get him a FSB 800 capable Socket 478 motherboard with overclocking options and overclock the P4 2.0 GHz Northwood CPU as fast as I can take it up to and when he has some money later on, get a cheap Prescott CPU to replace the Northwood CPU. This should help improve speed in gaming as well, since his CPU is probably bottlenecking the Radeon 9800 Pro somewhat. And since he already has two PC3200 512 MB RAM DIMMs (thanks to the low RAM prices), he should have enough room for overclocking the Northwood.

Since I am only familiar with overclocking Athlon XP/64 motherboards, I am unfamiliar with overclocking P4 CPUs, so I have a few questions:

1.) What is a recommended OC-capable FSB 800 Socket 478 motherboard?
2.) What is considered to be a safe CPU voltage range for FSB 400 P4 Northwoods?
3.) Although I never owned a P4 system personally, I have heard about the Northwood SDS ("Sudden Death Syndrome") on hardware forums in the past. How wide spread was this problem?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

P4C800/P4P800 (I have this).

 

[MDE]

My Abit IS7 has been rock solid for nearly a year now.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, the Asus P4C800, P4P800 and Abit IC7 and IS7 are all great socket 478 boards for overclocking. I wouldn't go much higher than 1.6v on a northwood. I wouldn't later on replace the northwood with a prescott, I would later on replace the 2ghz northwood with a 2.8c or 3.0c, they overclock nicely and the hypertheading helps a good bit. Prescotts don't really take the lead over northwoods till about 3.6 or 3.8ghz, and they also run a lot hotter. My 3.06ghz northwood at 3.45ghz was keeping up with my prescott at 3.8ghz in just about everything except video encoding.

 

[CKTurbo128]

Thanks everyone for your recommendations. I have gone with the Abit IS7. I just have one quick question: what is considered to be the maximum safe temp. limit (on load) for initial P4 Northwoods? I know most Athlon XP Barton overclockers would consider 50-59 C range (on load) to be the max safe temp. range that they would want the XP to run at.

 

[SPQQKY]

Ooohh, the IS7 was the best OCing P4 board I owned and I owned quite a few. Good choice. I agree w/ stevty2889, get a 2.4c or 2.8c. My 2.4C did 3.6 GHz!!!