Is it ok for me to OC?

I have an i7 2600k sandy bridge, I just OC it the lazy man's way and hit the OC button in my ASUS motherboard's bios screen But I just use the stock fan that came with the CPU, think it will overheat? According to 3DMARK11 it was running at 4.43Mhz durring the test, I believe its stock boost clock is only 3.8 (going off of memory) so that is a rather hefty OC is it not?

4.43 on the stock cooler? That's either not stable under full load, overheating under full load, or you have like the top 0.1% of chips.

Oh the fan was loud, not spinning at 100% or anything but imagine an old xbox 360, kinda what it sounded like. Maybe it is just inaccurate. All I know is...holy cow, I can really tell a difference in Planetside 2. getting a full 60-120 fps! Let me think how I can check the clock on this thing, because windows just reads the base clock of 3.4Mhz, not the boost clock (which is kinda annoying).

EDIT:
Nope, even CPU-z reads it at 4.43, and that is just on the desktop :S Voltage jumps around from 1-1.2 when on the desktop.
I seriously have very little knowledge when it comes to OC, I just wanted to try it out and since the mobo has a function built into it to dynamically OC I thought I would try it. Bad idea?

Double EDIT:
I apologize, I meant Ghz not Mhz obviously

The real question is what are your temps like? I'm also wondering if this built in overclock feature is just a more advanced form of turbo boost. Is it running at 4.4GHz 24/7?

You need to run Prime95, if it doesn't overheat or crash on that you're good.

juane414 said:

The real question is what are your temps like? I'm also wondering if this built in overclock feature is just a more advanced form of turbo boost. Is it running at 4.4GHz 24/7?

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Pretty sure thats only when boost is needed. I get the same 4.43ghz when I use my mobo's over clock feature instead of the bios.But it idles at 1.6ghz or something like that.The 4.43gz gives you a nice boost for sure.But I think its better than running. 4.43ghz at all times .Less stress on the CPU etc
JMO

You need to check your temps with Real Temp.http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

Yeah I turned it back down, I was getting 90C after turning on a CPU intensive game for only a couple minutes.

You really need a aftermarket heatsink to enjoy the benefits of hitting the overclocked sweet spot for gaming.