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it takes a while to get a decent stable overclock & its a very boring process, finding your max overclock at stock voltages then increasing volts as you lose stability to regain it, don’t do it with stock cooling, most times you will find you max over clock isn’t the most desirable choice..

I have a q6600 good for 3.7ghz on each core but the volts required to get to 3.7ghz stable are excessive, generate at lot more heat & is the very edge of stability compared to an easy clock to 3.4ghz & which hardly requires any of the voltages being bumped up, the same goes for my e8400 rig which can go to 4.5ghz but the sweet spot is @4ghz..

go read some overclocking threads based on your motherboard if you that keen to get into overclocking..
note some motherboards just don’t work nicely with overclocking & you are lowering the lifespan of your kit by overlclocking

Quoted from sick-lizard

its a very boring process

In all seriousness though, I agree with Skyride and Chris, you need to spend a good while looking into how to go about it, deciding if the performance boost is even worth it, doing it safely…

With your processor, you’re not going to see a huge boost in performance by doing it, no point for a good few years