FX 6300 Overclock - Sudden Temperature Jump?

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I decided to try overclocking my Fx - 6300 today.

Previously I was running it at base clock speeds of 3.5 GHz. At 3.5 GHz, the idle temperatures as stated by HWMonitor were 28 degrees Celsius.

I decided to turn it up to 4.2 GHz and give it more power. After rebooting, HWMonitor told me the idle temps were 68 degrees Celsius. Did I do something wrong? It seems hard to believe that the temperatures jump that high after overclocking by 700 MHz.

Using this CPU Cooler:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103064&cm_re=coolermaster_cpu_fan-_-35-103-064-_-Product
 
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RARRAF
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000687.htm
look if you have no idea of what your PC performs like at 3.5 GHz why are you overclocking it you need a base score at 3.5GHz then overclock it a bit and measure the performance. So on until you get a good score then it will degrade in performance and then you know you do not want to go any higher just overclocking for the sake of it. Will result in dead system at the end 70 degrees is not overly hot for an overclocked system but you have no idea how to overclock or what you are doing it for go on youtube. I can overclock my system but generally I get worse performance and crashes I like my system to be solid it is slightly overclocked by my system and thats all I need.
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there are limits too how far you can overclock before it becomes counterproductive and 700Mhz is a long way from your base frequency its also probably underclocking the ram and other parts so do you have benchmarks of what you are gaining from this.
 
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Benchmarks of what I am gaining from this? I didn't benchmark, I thought that would be way too risky because of the temps.

My specs:

FX 6300 3.5 GHz
Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1600 MHz 8 GB
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
EVGA Geforce Gtx 970 4GB GPU
2x WD BLUE 1TB Hard Drive
1x Samsung 150 GB SSD
 
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https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000687.htm
look if you have no idea of what your PC performs like at 3.5 GHz why are you overclocking it you need a base score at 3.5GHz then overclock it a bit and measure the performance. So on until you get a good score then it will degrade in performance and then you know you do not want to go any higher just overclocking for the sake of it. Will result in dead system at the end 70 degrees is not overly hot for an overclocked system but you have no idea how to overclock or what you are doing it for go on youtube. I can overclock my system but generally I get worse performance and crashes I like my system to be solid it is slightly overclocked by my system and thats all I need.
some benchmarking tools http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortdate/benchmarking.html
 
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I think 4.2 is pushing the limits of that CPU. I have heard of people having good results with 4.0 though. But while 68 degrees is a bit warm, it isn't going to melt your CPU either. Maybe increase case cooling a bit, get a better CPU fan, but you aren't at a critical temp.
 
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