E6420 overclock

[cdkfam]

OK I'm brand new to the whole overclocking thing but I have a question. I'm running a E6420 on a P5N32-e SLI Plus MB. Stock cooling in a Antec gamer 900 case. The way I overclocked the CPU was to go into the section where you set you FSB mhz and increased it a little at a time. As for the Vcore I let the MB auto set that. 1.39 I believe. It only allows you to set the speed of the FSB not the CPU host Frequency. Is it oK that I'm turning up the FSB. It's set at 1233mhz right now. I would like to go as high as possible on stock cooling. Any help would be great.

Just want to do this properly

 

[tank171]

Hmm, My E6300 is at 1350 with small voltage increase *like 1/8 of a volt* and it has no problems. I havent pushed it very hard, but I probably will upgrade my cooler.

Oh, yea, I forgot to mention that I have air cooling and idle for my processor is like <30.

 

[cdkfam]

I had it up to 1333mhz but noticed my CPU usage was constantly 50% so I turned it back down. Not sure if that's normal. Using orthos I was at 52 degrees after 5 minutes or so. Just need to know if I'm doing it correctly.