Need Advice Overclocking my R6850 Cyclone Power Edition

Hi guys, thanks for your time
so, i just got this R6850 with Cyclone cooling, it comes already OC'd at 860 MHz, but I read on some review that it's capable of reaching 1000Mhz with proper voltage tweaking, and since I'm a greedy bastard (aren't we all? ) I want all the juice I can squeeze out of this thing.
I got Afterburner installed, but I know nothing about overclocking beyond the basic definition of the word, although I don't think I'm gonna need to do anything more complex than adjust the slider under core clock (btw, core voltage is grayed out with no value, is this normal?)
how far can my power supply unit get me? I don't think cooling is an issue, as I've played several games so far with maxed settings and GPU temp (according to Afterburner didn't exceed 68c)

thanks for the reply, I tried that, but it didn't work, core voltage and shader clock (which I forgot to mention earlier) are both grayed out and showing no values.
I figured it might be the drivers, so I uninstalled the drivers that came with the card (v10.11 or something like that), restarted and then downloaded and installed the latest drivers,.. still the same

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