I thermal throttled my cpu for the first time.... and it's running better?

[PuncWam]

So I was actually tuning down my overclock on an I7 6700k from 4.8ghz 2 core and 4.7ghz other 2 cores ---> 4.7ghz 2 cores and 4.6ghz other 2 cores. At the first set I was running 1.405v and I was slowly bumping down the voltage until I got a crash to settle at a lower voltage for the lower frequencies using the in Windows Asus AI suite. Somehow, I don't know how, maybe i clicked the slider on the voltage and didn't notice, i bumped the voltage up to 1.5v... eeek. I didn't notice until I was running a benchmark to see if it would crash and saw it thermal throttling. Naturally I quickly stopped the benchmark and was a little worried when i saw what voltage I was running. I bumped it down to 1.35v and ran the benchmark again to see what result I would get, I was getting 1316ish prior to thermal throttling.  After Thermal throttling i was getting 1650. I went down again to 1.335 and finally the app crashed. At 1.345 it would still run but with a slightly lower score so I settled on 1.35v. After I went back to cinebench R20 and got a similar bump in score.From 2410-2420 to 2450. Can anyone explain this? Here I am worried that I damaged my cpu and it's running better? Just for the record I am not recommending anyone run an I7-6700k higher than 1.4ish volts but I'm trying to understand just what's going on.

[PuncWam]

My best guess is warming up the thermal paste helped it seal better and its dissipating heat better now but i'm curious if anyone has any insight.

[Constantin]

The benchmark when it throttled dropped performance.

there is the difference.

 

[DoctorNick]

When your thermal throttling then the clock will go down in order for the CPU to stay cool, thus lowering your score.  1650 seems pretty awesome for a 6700K in R15, but can't be stable..

[PuncWam]

I don't think you guys understand what I was saying, 1650 was after I vixed the thermal throttling, it was just a higher score at the same multiplier as before I throttled it.

[PuncWam]

The only explanation I can come up with is it was dissipating heat better after it warmed up and gave the thermal paste a better cure. I literally thought I might have damaged my chip tho i'm using an evo 212 and 1.5v is high enough to do damage. the 1650 is stable and im not even running at max overclock. I can run it at 4.8/4.8/4.7/4.7 when running at 1.4v. the 1650 is running 1.335v 4.7/4.7/4.6/4.6