Alright, I'm getting the e2180 processor and the GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L motherboard. I have never overclocked a processor before and am in need of some assistance.

I do know that I would need to increase the fsb (of course) of the processor, but would I need to do anything else? Disable speedstep? Set pci express slot to 100? Set pci to 33? Stuff like that? I'm also getting some ddr2-800 Crucial Ballistix ram. Should I go for a 1:1 ratio and downclock the ram? Or some other ratio and oc the ram?

All help is appreciated. Thanks!

Disable all unnesscary crap... Set PCI-E to 100 PCI to 33. Go 1:1 then turn up FSB as far as you can go without it crashing and your done

So should I go with 333X10 for a 3.3 Ghz overclock? Or should I go full out and do a 400X10? Also, I read the overclocking guide, would I be able to find ALL of those things that were disabled in my bios? Or would I have trouble with that?

I was thinking to go with 3.3 ghz and if that's COMPLETELY stable, I'd try and take it to 4 ghz...Or maybe that's a bit too high?

Would putting some better thermal paste help? Is it better than the pre-applied stuff that comes with it?

Hell I can barely to do 4.0 on my E6600 stable. I keep it at 2.4Ghz until I start lagging in games. Do the 3.3Ghz if you get it stable keep it that way

Should I put my own paste? Or use the pre-applied?

Arctic Silver 5. Could give you better temps

Could? Would it though? I have MX-1 which on previous testing showed to be more effective than AC5. I heard that pre-applied paste would work better for "some" reason.

use the MX-1 then. Pre applied paste in most cases dont work better

And put a small dot in the middle and put the heatsink on it? Should spread it out smoothly? or spread it out myself?

Also, would I find all those things in the bios that were in the overclocking sticky?

spread it smoothly and are you need to overclocking?

If I spread it myself I'm afraid that I'll mess it up...and plus I've heard that it's better to put a small dot in the middle and let the heatsink do the rest. I want to overclock because I always wanted to and this processor seems like a good first time OCer. Plus I can't really pay for a better system so I'm stuck with this budget system. Doesn't hurt to get some more juice out of it.

Do what is universally always better. More research I spread mine evenly.

And what about my other question? Would I be able to find all those bios things in the ds3l? Or am i gonna have trouble finding them?

Not exactly swimming in knowledge with that board but most of time it should be simple I shall do a bit research and tell you when I foudn out