how to overclock an E2160 PLEASE HELP!

i just bought a budget gaming rig with the following specs:
cpu:E2160
MB:GA-945PL-S3P
GPUowercolor x1950pro
RAM:2x1GB ADATA 667 mhz
HDD:160gb Seagate sata II 8 mb cache
DVDRW:LG RETAIL
Case:Raidmax Sagitta
PSU:Raidmax-RMX-500W12
MB( Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3P ) specs :

1066/800/533 MHz
Chipset Intel 945PL
ICH7
BIOS 1.4 Mbit flash ROM
Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
Supports Virtual Dual BIOS
PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0b.
Intel Core2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors
PCI Express x16
7.1 Channel with Realtek ALC888
10/100/1000 Gigabit Lan by Realtek 8111B
MAX MEMORY 2 GB
Memory slots 4x Dual Channel DDR2 (667/533/400 MHz)
1 x PCI Express x16
3 x PCI Express x1
3 x PCI
1 x ATA100
4 x SATA-II
1 x PS/2 Mouse
1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x Serial
1 x Parallel
1 x RJ-45 LAN
4 x USB 2.0
6 x Audio
Supports @BIOS
Supports Download Center
Supports Q-Flash
Supports EasyTune 5
Supports Xpress Install
Supports Xpress Recovery2
Supports Virtual DualBIOS

i never tried to overclock a cpu before so i havent got a clue where to begin and what to do...
what i need is a tutorial on how to overclock intel processors and if i'm lucky some of you know how to oc the E2160 on this motherboard.

PLEASE HELP ME! i want to overclock it to 2.8 with the stock cooler.

theres nothing about the E2160 in there and its too swift and direct , i dont undestand
i need a step by step tutorial.

You can start with 1333fsb= 3ghz with 1.5vcore-and then decrease the vcore till you find the lowest stable vcore.Don't forget to increase the north bridge volts.

I have e2160 to,but mine didn't overclocks well...

MSI P35 Neo2 Fr
e2160
corsair xms2 dhx ddr 800

Max stable oc 3.2GHZ at 1.635 vcore

Now at 3.0 ghz 1.5 vcore 333x9

By defualt that cpu has a 9 x multipler and a 200 MHz FSB, it should peak at in terms of performance at 3GHz depending on how u want ur memory to run go into ur bios and take the clock speed on the cpu to 333Mhz that x 9 will push you to about the limit on this cpu (You could go higher but benchmarking shows that one levels off at about these speeds) And to go higher means to change / push voltage cores which in turn means putting more heat through the system which may mean a non stock cooler is required.

Also make sure in ur bios setting options for controlling things like peak EMI are swicthed off ( i know some MSI boards have this enabled by default) This will cause the cpu to lock up during POST, as the Overclock will cause sudden peaks making the EMI controls kick in.

The rules to OC'ing are generic and can be applied to any suitable MOBO I suggest reading your MOBO's manual as that will teach you more than anything else. The rest is all numbers which I now provide

As I said this range peaks in benchmark at the 3GHz Range so

FSB = 333Mhz
Multipler = 9 (this is locked for this class of Core 2 Duo)

Ram is an odd one and Tbh it all depends on the ram you have. Best advice is to read up. Its always good to build you own boat.

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