BIOS:

   Above are some of the more important BIOS screens. Of course your BIOS may be different, unless of course you're using the ASUS P5B Deluxe like I am. There's actually a pretty good chance of that actually since there are not that many C2D motherboards on the market just yet, and I can certainly recommend the P5B Deluxe.

Stock Setup Information:

   Above is just to show you exactly what stepping, etc for my Intel E6400 CPU and also the Mainboard and BIOS revision, the Supertalent memory timings also. I just like to show you the stock settings that everyone else using the same hardware configuration would see. The screens are from CPU-Z. If you don't have it, get it! It's a great little tool to figure out what memory speeds you're actually running, BIOS revision #, etc. Knowledge is power and if you're not familiar with hunting around your BIOS for this information, this little program will tell you very easily.

The Adventure Begins:

   As you'll notice above, the stock CPU frequency speed for this setup is 266mhz. At that speed I have the option of using anywhere from DDR2-533mhz up to DDR2-1067mhz. I absolutely love the variety of memory dividers in this setup. It simply allows so many options. Basically what that means is I can use this E6400 at it's stock speed of 2.13GHz yet still use some mega fast 1066mhz ram. That's pretty badass if you ask me. Sorry if I sound a little too jacked about that, but I just came from the AMD setup and well, I had to overclock my cpu like crazy if I wanted to use 1066mhz ram.

   Speaking of the DDR2 speeds available, as I overclock the CPU those speed options will increase as I raise the FSB (CPU Frequency). The DDR2-800 will start to grow like DDR2-810, DDR2-825, etc. Once you get too far past 800mhz, then you just simply scale it back to the next lower divider. It's really hard to convey what I mean there, but it's extremely easy and you'll see what I mean if you're using this same hardware, or have the same options in your particular BIOS. 

   Now I'll skip the small talk and let you know right now that I was able to achieve an overclocked speed of 3.6GHz with this E6400 Core 2 Duo! Yes, that is on air-cooling alone! However I will say "hot" would be quite an understatement at 3.6Ghz. I was able to stabilize it with 12 hrs of dual prime95 installations, however at a top load temperature of 79c, I wouldn't suggest running it at that for a long period of time.

   I'll summarize the overclock more in the conclusion, including how I got there, at the end of this article. I know right now you just want to see the results and most of you experienced guys will just skip the how-to and go on your overclocking way anyway.