2400xp 266mhz fsb ASRock k7s8x motherboard Thermalright slk-700 with TMD fan 36cfm 512 dual channel ram. 9600pro radeon video This is my system specks. I would like to overclock it to its max. Can I have advice on how i'd go about overclocking it and how far of an overclocking i should go. thanks for your help

You didn't specify what type of RAM you are using. Your fsb overclocking potential will be limited by the FSB of the RAM. If you have 333mhz ram then that's all you can clock your cpu to. Likewise if your ram is 266 then you can't o/c the fsb freq on your cpu. your cpu will be set to 133mhz bus (266fsb) and a multiplier of 15. (15 x 133 = 1995 = 2Ghz). Assuming your ram is 333mhz do this: you'll need to go into your bios and manually set your bus freq to 166 (166 x 2 = 333) and drop the multiplier to 12.5 (166 x 12.5 = 2075 or 2.08Ghz, a XP2600+ if you like) from that provided you are stable start to increase the mulitplier one increment at a time. You'll probably have to slightly increase your core voltage too if and when your pc starts to crash or reboot itself until you get stable. Have a go and play as far as you dare I guess. Once you're done keep an eye on your cpu temp as you may need to increase the fan speed a bit (if you can). Your graphics card is another matter but search for 'rage 3d' and that should get you in the right direction. Good luck

Forgot to mention, check your mobo manual and check what fsb it supports first, I think yours does up to 400Mhz and if so then everything I've said in the post above will be ok.