Does overclocking a board (Abit IP35-E) to 450 or 500mhz FSB hurt its longevity?

[GundamF91]

Does overclocking a motherboard, such as IP35-E, north of 400 or 450mhz hurt a board's lifespan and stability? I assume that if IP35-E was a high quality board able to hit 500, then running it around 450mhz shouldn't hurt it much?

 

[SpeedEng66]

I didnt think the fsb will "hurt" anything
I would think the voltage increase (to everything else) would

but I really dont know (and would like to know also 🙂 )

 

[GundamF91]

I think the voltage increase such as Vcore will only impact CPU, and Vdimm will only impact RAM. They will stress those parts, but probably not going to stress the motherboard. The board should be able to handle the voltage flow since IP35-E has a lot of options in voltage and they wouldn't have put it in there if it couldn't handle it.

 

[TC91]

going to 450-500fsb usually requires a bit of extra voltage on the mch or whatever, and that would likely decrease the lifespan of the motherboard, but that effect would be lessened if your cooling around the motherboard was sufficient for those extra voltages. if you were doing something like folding @home 24/7 on 450-500fsb without great cooling on the board for example, that might really shorten its lifespan.