Intel E6750 Overclocking

I built my PC and waiting on the monitor to show up today. I havent turned on my computer yet or even know if its starts up, but im reading about overclocking. I said i would never do it and the comp is fast enough. I dont know yet, since havent tried it yet. It has the stock cpu thermal cooler with 2 fans. How do you overclock this chip? Do I need a special program? What would I want it to be at for it to be stable? Is there a big difference between 3.0ghz vs 2.66ghz? Of course more is better if it doesnt hurt the PC.

E6750 - 2.66ghz
Gigabyte motherboard
4gigs of DDR2 pc6400 ram
320gb HD
256mb geforce 8700

first thing i would recommend you is to read some guides on the internet about overclocking. after reading planty of them you will judge if you realy want to do it and if it will be worth it for you. overclocking isnt an easy game and can be very harmfull to your pc if you are not carefull. thats why it would be better to read about it before. it will most likely voids your warranties and you might need to spread out more cash into aftermarked cooling, power supply and memory just to make everthing stable.

Overclocking can be and IS Addicting Once you start it'll be hard to stop.
Start HERE ....Remember All CPU's O/C differently.....you might only get to 3.3Ghz while your buddy will get to 3.8Ghz
If you do it properly the chip will last you till your next upgrade.(keep it under 50* cel on load)
As far as heatsinks go I ALWAYS lap mine before putting them on...even aftermarket H/S's......they're never realy flat.
When I lapped my Arctic Freezer 64 Pro it made a 5* cel differance

what does lap mean and i just configured my bios. Do I enable the options where it says do i want to be alarmed when i get to a certain cpu temp or something? I just left them disabled as default. Also will i need a aftermarket heat sink and bigger power supply? I just built the computer now im upgrading already lol. Let me see how the comp turns out. Im formatting the HD and installing windows now.

lapping a cpu is a hard sport. it means sanding it to be as flat as possible and have a even surface because out from factory they are not 100% flat. but also heatsink arent 100% so by sanding both the cpu and heatsink and you want to make sure they are 100% flat then you get a good contact between both and might lower the temps a little bit. the only hick about this is that its hard to perform and you may just crap out. i personnaly did many lapping job and there is almost no segnificant results. i think its better worth it to just buy a well known aftermarket heatsink and apply artic silver thermal past. that way you will see more concrete results.

as for overclocking. like i said it is very very very recommended that you read about the subject before even thinking about doing anything or asking questions. there is soooo many basics that you didnt learned that even if we explain you how to do it you will just not understand. after you have read alot about it and that you feel more confy then you can experiment low to moderate overclocking to see by your self what it is and how your pc reacts. and then you can ask questions. it will be more easy for you to understand what we are talking about

btw the one basics you didnt know about is that you never buy generic stuff when you plan on overclocking. same for memory, if you buy low speed memory like 667mhz it will most likely bottleneck your oc. and you need to understand that overclocking puts your pc into way more stress then at stock settings and it is why you need well known and reillable parts like a good branded psu.