Can higher fsb's damage motherboard and cards ??

[chachmarach]

I have a gigabyte Ga-7dxr motherboard and i had been running it at 153 fsb. I don't think the ga-7dxr has any kind of pci divider to slow down the cards. Can running these high of fsb's damage components over time??What would be the highest fsb that would be safe without the divider in the bios??thanks in advance for any help with this.

 

[DimZiE]

i don't think it'll damage your mobo...

but it might damage your expansion cards (PCI,AGP)
but usually good quality cards wouldn't have any problem

 

[WarCon]

Yes, it can damage your equipment over time. Upping your FSB will increase heat in every chip that FSB is related to(PCI,AGP,memory, etc). Added heat will increase electron drift. Don't really know if it will decrease the life of your equipment significantly, but knowing how much extra heat upping my video cards processor speed added (until I added a huge heatsink) I would guess in some cases the life span couldl be drastically affected.

 

[NOS440]

some of the components that are in my current system have been under extreme overclocking for 5 years and I've never had a failure of any component. Most of today components can handle overclocking very well I wouldn't worry about it at all.

 

[novice]

Another concern might be your hard drive. Some hard drives are very unfriendly to overclocked PCI busses, and will result in data corruption. I had a Quantum drive have trouble with just a 75 MHz fsb, so your mileage may vary.
Chuck

 

[chachmarach]

Thanks for the help on this. I think i will leave it at 153fsb, i will probably only have this stuff for 6-8 months anyway. thanks again