New to overclocking.

Here's a good primer on overclocking to get you started:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/o [...] page=0%2C2

I've got a E5200 and a Foxconn motherboard and it overclocks easily to 3.3 ghz with stock voltages and a stock fan/heatsink with just a couple of bios settings.

My original link looks broken, so here's a repost of that ...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/overclock_your_pc

went through the links, great stuff guys!j I'm gonna attempt to push it to around 3.0 tonight on stock cooling. Still waiting on my cooler to get in.

I didn't do any voltage changes so it's just running the default setting the motherboard came with. I pushed the bus speed to around 265. With the E5200's 12.5 multiplier that calculates out to 3313 mhz speed.

The only other BIOS setting I had to change was to unlink the FSB with the memory speed so that the memory could run at it's rated speed. So it was just a couple of BIOS settings I had to change to do the overclocking to work. If your BIOS doesn't support unlinking memory speed from the FSB speed, you may have to fiddle with a FSB/Memory speed multiplier (as documented in the link).

As mentioned before, I'm just using the stock heatsink and fan that came with the CPU and it runs great. Temperatures stay really cool even with a load.

From load tests, that speed seems to be near the speed limit for a stable rig with default voltages for my system.