should i keep my overclock?

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right now i am using an i5-3570k with an asrock extreme 4 z77 motherboard and my cooling is a hyper 212 evo. i used to have it overclocked using the preset overclocks in the bios at 4.4 ghz my temps never went above 70 degrees. i then followed a video on getting the overclock to 4.6 ghz and i am at that speed stable right now. on cinebench i get about 7.46 but on the flip side i get my top temps at about 83-84 degrees, and i use about 20 more watts with the overclock. at 4.4 i got around 7.2 on cinebench, is it worth it to keep this overclock or should i go back to the settings i had before? also i have to keep my target fan speed level at 5 compared to 1 and my target temperature is set to 50 degrees
 

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coolermaster hyper 212 evo as stated before, but it turned out the overclock wasnt stable, it actually held up pretty well and then after a while i was re-running cinebench and it crashed upon start