Hello,I have the followimg machne : E8500,gigabyte ep45-ud3l , 8gb ram kingstone, gtx 285.I am running a synche ninja II cooler and i would like to OC the cpu a little to 3.60 or somethingcan you provide me instructions on how to accomplish this ?thanks in advnace.

Well...it's not realy rocket science, but in short you have to enter the BIOS, change the FSB (FrontSizeBus) speed and most probably add some more power to the CPU.I think it's best that you Google on "overclock E8500 EP45 4GHz" or something like that. That'll give you some sites that may describe what and how to change it.Check: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/overclocki...s3-e8500-28915/I've gotten my E8400 3.0GHZ on a EP45-DS3 board running stable at 4,05Ghz this weekend. Gigabyte mobo's are quite nifty when using them in overclocking. Lot's of little tweaks that you can apply to get things running stable.As far as I've read...your E8500 (depending if it's a C0 or E0 stepping (E0 is better to OC)) could do >4ghz on a Gigabyte mobo.It also depends if your RAM can handle the extra speed without too much difficulty.

yes it is E0..DONT KNOW ABOUT THE ram THOUGH...

Overclocking is a very per system/hardware thing. It'd be best to do some research on devoted overclocking sites. Anyway, with your E8500, you should be able to up the FSB to 400 (1600 Quad pumped) to achieve 3.6Ghz WITHOUT TOUCHING any other voltages. Run your RAM at it's highest factory recommended/warranty covered speed. Anything over 3.6-3.7GHz will more than likely need a little voltage boost. Over 3.8Ghz and you'll be pumping over 1.28V into the chip. The key is to BE PATIENT. Go up a few MHZ at a time. Be careful playing with voltages, you can ruin hardware with high settings.Download Orthos or OTTC to test the stability of the over clock, and while doing that keep tabs on the temperature with REALTEMP. 70C is the absolute max I'd let my E8400 go, but it's never seen over 65C with my relatviely cheap Scythe Katana 3 under very heavy load. Note the max temp according to Intel is something like 72C, so stay in the low/mid 60's.