overclock help

[frailimbnursry]

Let me introduce myself, I am a newbie. With that said let me continue...

Today I was toying around in my BIOS and changed the CPU Voltage(?) number from 133 to 135 to see what would happen, and I rebooted and my P4 went from 2.26 Ghz to 2.29 Ghz. I thought to myself, it cannot be that easy. I've read something about VCORE but have no idea what i do with that number, currently it is 1.500. My questions is, how can i OC my CPU to run faster. Do i just adjust one number, or both of them? Right now it runs at around 32C. I hear a P4 should remain around 40C. I'd like to keep my CPU around there as i cannot afford better cooling, ro to burn out my CPU.

Any and all help is appreciated.

[update]
I asked a friend of mine, he said gradually increase the frequency untill its unstable, go down a step increase VCore, then try again.

With this advice I continued to overclock. I would up the freq., boot, run Sandra Burn-In at High Priority to see if stable, reboot enter BIOS and check temperature (the Sandra was giving me 25C which wouldnt be true). I stopped when my 2.26 ran at 2.55. My frequency is at around 150 i think, I have yet found it unstable to require an up in VCore. My BIOS says the cpu is at 43C which seems acceptable, if any o this is wrong please let me know before i damage anything.
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[update]
i am up to 2.67 Ghz at 1.55 VCore.
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[toss5000]

you have the right idea, see if you can get it to 2.8! (watch the temp. though).

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[mvsiangco]

be carefull about overclocking!

always read the warning about overclocking because these warnings are there for a reason!

 

[monkeyspank]

nice work dude.
and yes, it is that easy. Until something goes wrong of course but dont be scared. Once you've found out how high you can get the FSB, start playing around with the memory timings to get the best performance.

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[Champion_Tufshop]

dont go over 1.7vcore

to monitor temps in windows, download motherboard monitor 5.
also download prime95 to test for errors (if you can run the torture test for about 12hrs nonstop you are good to go)

this will also give you your max load temp.