Should I overclock my athlon 860K?

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Is it worth attempting to overclock this CPU to get more performance out of it?

Specs:

AMD Athlon x4 860K processor @ 3.7GHz (4GHz turbo)
Nvidia Geforce 750Ti 2GB MSI
1600MHz 8GB DDR3 Memory
1TB 7200RPM HDD
Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2

Current cooler: Artic Alpine GT 64 Rev.2

If so, how would I go about doing this? I've never done any OC before, but it does sound interesting to learn and if it really does help performance, then that's a bonus.
 
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With that motherboard I wouldn't. It's not made to do well with overclocking. Your CPU might throttle or your motherboard might overheat. Either way some sort of instability I would think.

Plus that CPU Cooler is not fitting for overclocking either. So also your CPU could overheat easily.
 
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The 860K is made for overclocking. With that being said, you definitely need a better CPU cooler. Also, your motherboard will likely hold you back. You can probably get a mild overclock and be fine. I wouldn't try to go past 4.2ghz on that motherboard.

 
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Thanks

I've noticed that whenever my CPU load reaches near 100% on all cores, the cores will randomly start to throttle (not all at the same time) to 1.7GHz and then go back up to 3.7GHz - results in degraded performance. This happened during a Sony Vegas render attempt using the CPU only (I wanted to see if it throttled and it did).

Should this be happening?
 
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That is called throttling and is a good indicator that you will NOT be overclocking on that motherboard. Throttling is a motherboard safety feature to prevent damage from overheating. It is common with AMD cpus on cheapo motherboards.
 
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Wouldn't a decent cooler help keep temps away from nearing dangerous levels, though?

While this cooler isn't ideal for overclocking, it shouldn't be having issues dealing with the stock speed, should it?
 
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Would "undervolting" help in that case, then? It's currently @ 1.3875v according to AMD overdrive. Doesn't throttle at stock clock unless cores are under high load (90% constant load) for over 2+mins or so
 
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