Your temperature goal should be 60c max and lower if possible, the further past 60c you constantly run is going to cause internal throttling the CPU has built in to protect itself, this protective throttling you cannot control it is self activated as the CPU approaches certain temperature levels.
You can sometimes monitor this built in CPU protection in action with programs like CPU-Z and CoreTemp and additionally to note benchmark performance drop off and your overall benchmark scores much less than before.
Which leaves most scratching their heads wondering why the stock CPU performance is in some cases better than the overclocked performance? What is going on?
Why is my overclock performance dropping off?
Simple, The CPU is throttling to protect itself before it reaches a danger level?
The CPU will throttle way back to protect itself and drop that heat!
How else could they guarantee a boxed CPU for 3 years, if they didn't manufacture the protection into the CPU to protect their product, against the user! (Speaking to you on a pure logical level of understanding, as CPU thermal protection is a solid fact!)
Which most are clueless is even built into the CPU and is automatically activated with ZERO user control over it!
And this is with AMD and Intel CPUs.
This also will limit your overall overclock of the CPU, as the protection activates earlier the higher you push the clock, because the higher you push the clock, the higher the CPU temperature.
So if you run constantly at higher temperatures and think everything is OK, well it's not as you are effectively shortening the life of your CPU because of temperature you are creating from the overclock.
The trick is, If you can keep your CPU cool enough!
You can actually operate below the throttle threshold.
Never having it engage in the first place.
But for your situation and cooling, I recommend staying below 60c period.
The only way around this is to keep the overclock cool enough so you stay below those protective threshold temperature points that the protection throttling activates.
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