Q9450 overclocking, advice for newbie

[N_L]

Hi guys, had this PC for 2 years and now I want to overclock it a bit.
I wasn't thinking anything crazy, maybe 3.2 or bit more that won't be too dangerous.

I've been running prime 95for 30 minutes and my temp(stock) is 60-65c. Is that too high?
I got heatsink and aftermarket cooler, recently cleaned the inside of case, applied new paste etc. When checking temp in BIOS it's around 30c

I tried putting it at 3.2ghz, increased volatge 1.25 or 1.3 but temp went up to 70degrees when running prime95 for short while so I just went back to default.

Here's my spec:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119138 - case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299 - MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115042 - CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171022 - PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121269 - VGA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231145 - RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003 - heatsink

I'm fairly new to this and if I play more with settings I'm afraid I'll screw something up so I seek advice.
Spent a lot of time googling and reading forums but I can't be too sure or find enough specific information.

Can you tell me what I should do? Exactly what settings to change and to what so I get nice stable speed? There are a lot of extra settings in bios for utilities etc, dunno what's useless or slowing it down.

Here are BIOS pics unchanged:
https://sites.google.com/site/nolimitss/bios1.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/nolimitss/bios2.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/nolimitss/bios3.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/nolimitss/bios4.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/nolimitss/fgdghfghfawe.jpg

 

[drescherjm]

I've been running prime 95for 30 minutes and my temp(stock) is 60-65c. Is that too high?

No I consider that low for a CPU designed to run at up to 100C. If you are hitting 85C plus I would look to increase cooling but 60 to 65C not bad at all. This is actually the expected temp with the stock cooler at stock frequency..

I tried putting it at 3.2ghz, increased volatge 1.25 or 1.3

I would leave the voltage alone for 3.2 GHz.

 

[N_L]

I left it all on auto and FSB on 400, voltage now is ~1.320 and currently running Real Temp's 10 minute test through prime95, I see temp going over 70 degrees celsius at some points. Maybe I should decrease it a bit? From what I saw it can run on less voltage but not sure what to put :/

And another thing, my memory supports up to 1000mhz, now with frequency on auto it show's in cpu-z it's at 1:1 with 400mhz, which means it's only using 800mhz right? When I change it to 1003(won't boot on 1066) say's frequency is 500mhz and it's at 5:6(or 4:5 don't remember). Should I go faster or stick with 1:1?

On idle it drops down to 50c, but so does multiplier from 8 to 6.