Q6600 overclocking a newbie question

[scott wilcox]

Just been stress testing (i.e Prime 95) and with coretemp at the default FSB settings i get coretemps of 47C. It seems stable at this point.

Now to overclock surely i need to get the FSB from 266MHz to something like 333Mhz to make a real difference (multiplier seems to be x9). This would give me about 3GHz. Is there really much point in going for less ?

Do i need better cooling to get to this FSB frequency? How hot can the cores get ?

 

[scott wilcox]

Got it to 2.7Ghz. Try more next week. Stable with Prime 95 and the temperature is stable
at 49-50C. Looks promising. Just changed the FSB from 266 to 300Mhz.

Looks as if the DDR2 has also overclocked. I guess at some point i might have to change the system memory multiplier. I am using Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB).
What do you guys reckon. Will i need to use the memory multiplier ?