AMD 2500+ help

i have an AMD athlon 2500+ cpu. i want to OC this up as far as i can go without the risk of damage is there any way i can test how far i can go easily like a point an click program and also i need an OC software thats easy to use someone gave me one already but it doesnt support my motherboard..

ALbatron KX400-8X (fsb 333)
AMD athlon 2500+ 1.85 Ghz
512mb of ram (pc2700/2700)

and easy slider program would help hince im a newbie..i also have the standard fan that comes with the processor if OC wont work with that or i can only go so far that would help alot..

 

It is more logical and also effective to do the related overclocking within the BIOS, but be warned, overclocking your system (especially CPU) could render your system unworkable within seconds, if you are not careful and if you do not have adequate cooling, for the case and more so for the CPU.

Your System Core Speed (in your case 1850MHz/1.85GHz) is calculated mainly by these two values:
Clock Multiplier X FSB (Front Side Bus, which in your case is 166MHz, 333 is the doubled value of the actual FSB due to dual-channelling technology which gives you the Bus Speed)
So roughly,
1,850MHz = 11 X 166 (if you manually set the clock multiplier to 11.5, that wold give you a core speed of 1900Mhz, try that and see if everything is still stable then try 12x which would be almost 2GHz! Again with good cooling I have seen AMD XP CPUs oc'ed another 200-250MHz without any problems.
Know this, incresing your Core Speed would lower your RAM CAS settings to compensate.
Final word, you could also use Windows based utilities too but no matter which path you take be careful and ask yourself is it worth the risks?
Good Luck.