If my CPU temp is maxing out at 60° under full load does that mean it's throttling?

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I have an older CPU, an i5 3470K, that under full load measures about 60° on Speedfan. Does this mean it's throttling/not being used to its full potential becuase it won't allow itself to overheat? Might I benefit from a better cooler than the stock Intel one it came with in order to get full potential? I'd been thinking about a Hyper 212 Evo....?
 
Ok thanks, that's all useful info. So really the problem with it staying at 60c might just be that it's not overclocked at all yet? As I mentioned, it is the 'K' model which I'm pretty sure means it's unlocked for overclocking, right? But I guess my question would be, should I overclock with a stock CPU or maybe spend £30 on a Hyper 212 Evo or something just to get a few more degrees of cooling first?

Here's what my readouts look like at full load:

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Oh sorry, my bad. I thought any 'K' could be overclocked but anyway, sounds like a Hyper212 might be a decent low-cost upgrade for this truly 'end of life' machine :-) Now I'll have to remember everything I ever learned and then forgot about overclocking in like 2005.....!!

Thanks for the tips!
 
One more question - I remember learning last time about how my Gigabyte motherboard has some kind of 'turbo' feature where (if I understand this correctly) it kind of variably overclocks the CPU as and when it needs to, rather than say setting it to 4.2GHz and leaving it there.

Have you had any experience with this kind of variable overclock and if so would you reccommend it for extending the life of the components rather than just leaving them constantly overclocked?
 
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