Athlon 700 (Slot A) overclocking question

[supraway]

I have decided to buy my friend's Slot-A Athlon 700, and I have a few questions.

First question.
This friend has been having lockup problems on his computer, so he is upgrading to a 1.2GHZ T-Bird with an Asus motherboard. I am going to buy his old Athlon 700. I just want to know if anyone else has lockup problems with their Athlon 700, and if this would be a bad purchase for $50 (he is a good friend, so I dont mind paying that much for processor+nice fan)

Second question.
I am NOT sticking with his HP motherboard. What is a really good Slot A motherboard for under, say, $110 that will give me the best functionality and overclockability?

Third question.
I AM ABSOLUTELY GOING TO OVERCLOCK. I havent cracked open his processor case yet, is there any real reason I should, besides cooling? How much hotter does this processor run with the case on? He has a large heatsink with two larger than stock fans on it (don't know exact specs on it) with some generously applied thermal grease.

Fourth question.
The above questions answered, what speed would be safe, but worth my effort to o/c to, using what FSB, multiplier, and voltage? What temperatures am I going to be looking at?

Fifth question.
Uhh, I am willing to do about anything to anything, I build computers all day for my job. Is there anything else I should know, since I am relatively new at performance overclocking?

BTW, I was planning to go up to at least 800, hopefully 900 if possible. 235w PS going to be enough wattage to drive this thing? Otherwise, I will have to get a better one. :(

[ReTiCuLeX]

Yes I did too have lock up problems lots of them with an ASUS K7V Motherboard and AMD Athlon 700 they dont do good at Overclocking these chips just leting u know my sugestion is dont buy it go buy a 1.2ghz athlon make sure the chip if u buy it says AXIA and try to get a 266bus chip its nice = ) also get an Asus A7V133 thats what i got dont go for DDR go for the PC133 cause DDR didnt mature yet its fairly new and the company that makes DDR is a crapy co.

[supraway]

Thanks. The only problem is that I AM planning on buying this 700, so maybe there are some good experiences out there?

[hippy]

Well i dont know about the 700, but i have a 800 that i was able to get up to 1080 (108 x 10), the only problem i had was the L2 multiplier. My mobo is an Abit KA7-100, you should be able to find one fairly cheap since they dont make SLOT A's anymore. The best way to overclock the K7's Athlon (w/ 512 L2) is by a GFD, goldfinger device, it changes the multiplier instead of the FSB, i.e, 100 x7 , it will change it up to 10.5( 100 x10.5). OC by the FSB creates instability i've read. Then you run into the problem with the L2 multiplier, once you get the MHZ. to a certain point. Just like all of us there is alot of reading you need to do, perferable before you start to OC. Good luck.