Overclocking 6600?

[Gutspiller]

1. Is overclocking the 6600 CPU alright with the stock cooler?

2. Overclocking is all done in the BIOS right?

3. What do all do I need to change to start to overclock it?

I read and somebody said that the 6600 should overclock to 3.2Ghz with the stock cooler. Does this seem about right?

What settings should I try? I don't want to blow my chip out and am not an overclocker, but if I can get this baby up to 3 or 3.2 I'd be pretty happy.

Please help!

P.S. I have a P5W DH Deluxe mobo with 6400 memory.

 

[TehQuick]

On stock cooler, I brought one e6600 to 3ghz, another one to 3.3ghz (both at 1.325vcore). Load temps for second one where in low 70s, but it was stable. I'd say 3ghz is more likely than 3.2 or more due to rather high load temps. And yes, the overclock is done in bios, or you can use windows-based o/cing utilities (latter is kinda frowned upon on this forum ). WIth better cooling, you can get up to 3.6ghz but above that with p5w is kinda hard due to limitations of 975 chipset (doesn't handle well 400fsb or above without volt-mods)

For details of overclocking I suggest google. I found a few nice guides for overclocking conroe that way myself