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SATA and Overclocking your computer

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Can data corruption occur on your SATA harddrives if you overclock and the hard drives are connected to the controller on your southbridge?
 
Yes, it's fairly well known when overclocking the FSB on some chipsets (most commonly with Nforce chipsets for Athlon 64).
 
SATA controllers that go through the PCI bus arn't as prone to corruption when overclocking because most BIOS's will lock the PCI bus frequency. In most cases, the southbridge runs at some speed ratio of the FSB.
 
From what I've heard about SATA corruption, it starts to happen around 215 FSB, so generally 220 would not be a good idea. If you want higher FSB speeds without worrying about corruption, you are best suited with a Parallel ATA drive. Not the ideal solution, but remember that overclocking isn't supported for the most part.
 
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