OCing my E6600: Pros & Cons

Sounds like fun, read this.

Now about the power issue. I think wusy touches on turning off those issues in his guide. Not sure how detailed it is on that one aspect. I do know that if you're OCing anyway its best to not worry overly about power consumption. At the end of the year its only adding a few dollars to the bill over the course of the year. Its not going to break your wallet either way.

If you OC with most tools like the uGuru you can usually have them turn on at startup and stay OC'd all the time or have it where you can turn the OC on and off at will if you really think you want to save those couple cents a month turning it off when not gaming.

Anyway, read the guide and if you have more questions afterwards I'm sure someone more versed in OCing can help you here

I'm not certain, but afaik from wusy's guide the reason you disable as much stuff as you can is to reduce the load on the chipset when doing serious overclocking. I think you have to disable speedstep only if your altering your core voltage. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you would still be able to do some moderate overclocking without disabling these features, provided that you dont change your core voltage.

i have my "cheap" e6400 at 3.2 with the same 9500 heatsink, so you should shoot for 3.4 at least.

Remember to use iTAT or Core Temp to monitor temps. make sure you connect everything. and overclock.

The problem with overclocking is you never have enough.