First time overclocking -> e6300

[TossedSalad]

I've never overclocked before, but wish to do so.
My specs are:
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
ASUS EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M Radeon X1950PRO 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX400-PN, RoHS, 12cm FAN, version 2.2, 2 SATA, 20+ 4 pin, PCI Express, 400W Power Supply

Can anyone give me a good place to start?
Thanks!

EDIT: I'd like to point out I'm running on stock cooling.

 

[Canai]

The best thing for you to do is read a couple of the guides that have been posted here. The first one is a general O/C guide, and the second one is more C2D centric.
here

and here

edited for fixing links

 

[GuitarDaddy]

First you will want to download some testing programs
Here and

Then you will want some monitoring programs
TAT
CoreTemp
CPU-Z

Then you will want to go Here
And learn the bios settings on your board.

Then look at the overclocking guides
Here and Here and Here

And you should be set

 

[1ManArmY]

nice references

 

[TossedSalad]

Thanks a lot!

 

[AnotherGuy]

Omg None of those items works for overclocking... what have u done??????






















lol jk u should be alrite... maybe 430 x 7= 3.0 ghz and memory running at ddr2 860hmz.... if it can handle it. If not set fsb to closer to 400 and see what happens.... actually since ur on stock cooling now that i saw it u better aim for something like 2.8ghz or less.... but not more than 3ghz or ur temps will skyrocket. Always check ur temps if ur overclocked.... also run the stability tests... orthos... etc to see if u r stable or not

 

[mgutz]

start at 2.8Ghz, that should be an easy overclock for an e6300 and DDR2-800. simply change the FSB to 400 (7 x 400 = 2800) and set DDR2 voltage to match your mem specs. that's all i had to do on the DS3. asus are supposed to be better boards, so it should be as simple. start tweaking from there. i disagree with C2D guides that have you bump all voltages immediately. your system is stablest at stock so why start overvolthing everything? i've had the e6300 stable at 3.3Ghz (only had to slighly bump up the CPU and DDR2) with 2GB of mem, but once i went to 4GB i could only go a little over 2.9Ghz so i stayed at 2.8Ghz using recommended voltages. i need the mem for Vista x64 and multiple VMWare sessions.

i use Big Typhoon cooler which is an excellent CPU cooler, not as good as my Ninja lowering CPU tems, but the BT helps cool surrounding chipsets since it blows down.