Need help with Overclocking for a total NOOB!

[muliyul]

Looking for some good, stable bios speeds.
And what are your opinions about Gigabyte's software Smart 6 for OC?

Specs
Mobo: GA-P55A-UD3 rev 1.0 Bios ver. F9
CPU: Intel i7 Core 860
Mem: 2 sticks x 2Gb each (KVR1333D3N9/2G x2) = 4Gb RAM
GPU: Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 5750 @ 1Gb mem
PSU: Corsair TX650w ATX 12v
OS: windows 7 x64
2 Major fans: CPU *STOCK* fan, Case rear fan (expel warm air from inside)

If anybody needs any more specs just post

[Dark Mantis]

To be fair most people start off overclocking using utilities like that. They are ok but very limiting. Most proper overclockers wouldn't touch them. But you have to start somewhere and that is as good as any. Have aplay around and learn what it's all about. It is no good asking for numbers though because every setup is going to be different. It is an art form.

[muliyul]

I know but I am looking for a starter values.

[Dark Mantis]

Well there is quite a good guide on the forum here somewhere.  I remember reading it a while ago, it should be in this section really.
Well here's some utilities: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,420.0.html
I cant spot the guide at the moment but if i come across it I will post it. I can give you a start and that is to drop the baseclock(BCLK)  and then work from there. It's much more complicated now everything is on the CPU.

[Dark Mantis]

I have just thought Gigabyte has just released a remote control overclocking tool that is quite fun to play with. You will need another laptop, netbook, iPAD sort of device but you can control the settings in real time. Check it out here. You can download it further down the page. The olnly word of caution is that when you install it, it sets itself up to run on startup by default and it is a bugger for giving you latency problems so I would stop it from self starting.
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2090.0.html

[glen8]

The P55 'Lynnfield' based chips require a decent amount of volts to get stable.

I'm guessing you have 1333Mhz RAM?  IIRC the 860 runs at 21 multi so I'd drop the Multi and increase the Bclk until the RAM reaches 1333Mhz
If you don't gain what you are looking for then drop the Multi again and increase the Bclk even further.  Check the SPD as you may have to lower that if your RAM goes beyond 1333Mhz.

Go into the CPU advanced settings and switch off Turbo, and all the power saving settings.  The only thing I keep on is the Thermal event and HyperThreading.  If you don't require HT then switch it off and with it on you need even more Volts to keep it stable and you won't get as high an overclock.

Slowly up the volts to the CPU vcore and qpi/vtt.  Intel say the MAX is 1.4v for both and 1.8v for the DRAM.  You won't need that much though.
Switch on the LLC to Level 1

To be honest you need decent RAM to get a high overclock as it will be the memory to fail before the CPU.  You can push the RAM beyond 1333mhz if you wish but it will probably require lower timings and more volts.