by burning in my RAM, do you mean using my computer averagely, or running the memory thing in prime95? or running memtest for a while?
Use like SiSoftware Sandra and run the mem burn in test. I did this at the advice of 4W4K3 because he knows how to OC RAM really good, but you just put that program in a continues loops and it'll heat up your RAM which causes transistors to expand which could lead to better OC's for the ram. Same thing applies to the processor, generally after it's 'burned in' a little it'll clock better.
when i change the multiplier in the bios what am i actually changing about my processor?
lol how do you not know this, your first post makes it seem like you know exactly what it's for. Don't worry leonidas, I'm not making fun of you, I thought you just knew what it was doing. Anyhow it's multiplying the FSB by whatever you're setting it to, that's all it's there for. Just to simply multiply up the FSB to get your Processor speed, and without an AGP bus option like we got then it uses the FSB to adjust the ratio of the AGP
CI Bus...
You want an FSB that's atleast equal to your RAM. You got PC3200 which is DDR400 which DDR = Double Data Rate, keyword double, so when you see your CPU FSB at 200 then you got a 1:1 ratio with your PC3200 RAM because 200x2 = 400 you want your CPU
RAM Ratio in the Softmenu to be set at 6/6 so it'll be a 1:1 ratio with that PC3200, from there, upon going past 200 you'll be OC'ing your RAM which will require timings adjustments and possibly upping the Dimm voltage. To answer your next question, yes with better RAM, meaning not only high performance, but a good quality brand name and series, you will get better overclocks than you would with valueRAM as valueRAM is meant to just be stuck into a computer whereas generally high performance RAM is used by high-end users.
So in your case, right now especially, if you got only ValueRAM and it's PC3200, then set your CPU FSB at 200 and just start off at 9, so it's 200x9 = 1.8GHz stock speed, and put it at 1.55Vcore, this may or may not happen to you, but when I put my Vcore at 1.35 the mobile chips actual stock Vcore, it defaulted the multiplier to 6 probably because my system figured it'd be way too low to power whatever processor is in there unless it clocks down....anywho, start there, 200x9 and then work your way up in .5 increments so you'll be going up 100MHz per .5 increment in the multiplier which the processor should easily be able to handle. at 1.55 Vcore you should be able to change it up to 200x10 without any problems, but just to be safe, once you start it up at 2GHz, run prime95, if it doesn't freeze or you get an error within the first 5 mins, then up the multiplier by the .5 Increments until prime95 either errors damn near immediately or causes your computer to freeze. At which point you'll want to add .05 Vcore to whatever you previously had, but it'll probably take up to another .1 added before it becomes completely stable.
You should be able to probably hit 2.4GHz on 1.65Vcore, whether it'll be prime95 stable I don't know, if it makes it atleast 6 hours prime95 stable then it's good to go although I like to leave mine for 10 or more if I can just to make absolute sure. Takes 8 hours for it do repeat itself as far as iterations go, just make sure you use the LARGE FFT test and monitor your temps.
EDIT: Oh yeah don't get PC-3500 RAM, just get a low latency high performance pair of PC3200 like these:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-896&depa=1
Not saying the stick you were looking at was horribly bad, but with a good strong pair you'll be able to OC the RAM past PC-3500 speeds anyway, you'd just need to pass 216FSB and you'll have faster than PC3500 and probably with better timings. Ask 4W4K3 because he knows a good deal about RAM OC'ing and that OCZ is a far superior brand to OC'ing than even Corsair XMS series. I read a review on the OCZ Platinum series Rev. 2 and it outperformaned Corsair XMS in every bench, not only that but they can overclock like a beast. These are the platinum series, I'm hoping I can MAYBE get this pair for christmas, I doubt it though, pretty pricey:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-890&depa=1