Is this voltage suitable for my overclock?

Hello, am new to these forums and was seeking some advice about my voltage.

My E6600 is overclocked to 3.0 Ghz and I was monitoring the temps and I noticed that after running for just an hour the temp would peak at 72 degrees.

I was concerned about the temps being this high and in the bios my Vcore was set to auto and was reading 1.412V which to me seems a bit high for a 3.0ghz overclock so lowered it down until I found the perfect low voltage which was stable.

I found that with the Vcore set to 1.25V (1.2V in CPUZ) my temps never peaked over 50, even after 9 Hours! and would mostly stay at 44-45 degrees constant.

but I want to know if the voltage is not too low and if there were any disadvantages or problems that it may cause. (am new to overclocking so I just want to make sure )

thank you.

You could easily get higher out of that chip.. Stay below 75 I'd say (personally). You should be sweet. By 75 I mean at full 100% loading.

You've got a decent amount of headroom in that chip. I'd aim for 3.6ghz if you want to give it a try. <50 is fantastic temps at full loading. There aren't any real issues with some voltage bumps unless you go silly with them.. It MAY shorten the life-span.... But by life-span, it may take off 6 months of it's 20 years? =D. . I wouldn't be worried; I in fact encourage to push it further =).

I have tried to push it further but got no luck

it will never boot even if I try 3.1 ghz with a higher voltage.

Ah well. 600mhz over stock with 1.2v (which, by the way, is below stock voltage for that chip) is a fantastic result. =).

I'd like to help more but sadly the LGA 775 platform was one I never learnt a lot about. I was on AMD's side at that time when they were top-dog. I'm sure there are plenty of other settings you could (need) to tinker with to get past that 3.0ghz barrier.