HEY GUYS, i'm new to the computer scene and i just recently finished building my PC.
SPECS: motherboard= ASUS P5KPL-CM
CPU= Intel Pentium DUAL CORE E2180
GRAPHICS CARD= NViDIA 7200GS
1GB RAM 800mhz DDR2 HYNIX
Anyways my motherboard has an overclock feature were you can use 5%/10%/15%/20% etc overclock profiles. But just can't seem to get Past 10% overclock which gives me gain from 2Ghz to 2.213 ghz. I know my Cpu can do more cause ive read up on it before buying and everyone else seems to be able to get 75% Gains with ease. Please help me overclock. Instructions or any saught of help will do thank you. EMAIL ME AT= povsta@live.com.au

Generally speaking, the automatic overclock features that most boards offer aren't very good. You will be much better off doing it manually...
For example, your processor has a FSB of 200MHz. You can easily raise that to 266MHz and probably not have to touch any other settings; at most just give your CPU a very small bump in voltage. And by doing that you already would have a 2.66GHz processor, with a lot more to go...

Read up on this, lot of great support forums out there... check out overclockers.com

Do you want my advice. don't overclock! It is a waist of good hardware. all overclocking does is add extra stress to your hardware without much performance gain. if your processor is stable and runs efficiently, leave it alone. but if you just have to overclock it, Flynismo is right. on board overclocking isn't very good at all. you need to bump the FSB just a little.

Hey there i tried what u said, but anything over 224cpu frequency won't work. it won't get past the loggon screen. turns of at this point. I've tried everything i could think off. CPU voltage to VTT setin . But thats about it i dont know what else to do.

Your probably right, cause its doing a good job at 2.2 anyways. But if you can think of any other little tweaks that can help speed things up i'll take your advice on board. thanks mate.

When you say logon screen, do you mean the login screen for your operating system, or are you talking about when you first turn on your computer and the BIOS screen that displays while your operating system is booting up?

Just a couple basic things to try before we go further....

First, make sure that all your power saving settings are disabled (C1E, SpeedStep, etc...)

Next, set your FSB ratio to 1:1. Your board may or may not give you that option (your RAM has to be linked-which is another setting your board may not offer). If you're not sure, basically what that means is that your RAM is running at the same speed as your processor. So if you set your processor to 266MHz, then set your DRAM frequency to 533 MHz (this is confusing, I know...will explain later)

Also, wanted to reiterate what jermaghs07 said above....

The only time you are going to see any significant benefits to overclocking is when you are using intensive applications such as games, graphic design/3D software (such as AutoCAD, Maya, Photoshop and so on...) video editing/rendering, etc...

That said, what do you mainly use your computer for?

Since this is a pretty detailed process; here's a great how-to article on overclocking Intel Dual Core processors-

HOWTO: Overclock C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals)

THE logon screen with the user accounts