Appropriate overclock for 5960X

[baldursgate3]

So I've overclocked my CPU to 3.978GHz (Turbo) and it turned out to be pretty stable after doing several stress tests.
Max temperature that I came across was about 60-62C on all cores and core voltage was at about 1.275.

Can anyone shed light on how I should go about overclocking this CPU and what voltage/clock is me pushing too far?

Coolant: Hydro Series™ H60

 

[Alpha3031]

The general consensus is that 80 C or above and 1.3 V or above is bad for Haswell chips.

 

[baldursgate3]

@Alpha4042,

The general problem that I face is that the voltage proportionally increases when I overclock. Is there a way to disable the automatic voltage control?
and is 1.2V too close to 1.3?

 

[Alpha3031]

No. Anything up to 1.3 VCore is considered fine. You can disable auto voltage by manually setting it in the BIOS.

 

[baldursgate3]

No. Anything up to 1.3 VCore is considered fine. You can disable auto voltage by manually setting it in the BIOS.

What voltage would suffice for 4GHz?

 

[Alpha3031]

You'll have to test that out yourself, as every chip is different. 1.28 V should be fine though.