Will higher FSB kill components?

[Sniper82]

I currently have my 1gig@1.2 9x.133. Anyway I hear upping the FSB will increase overall performance. But I also hear it could kill the HD,video card,sound card,ect. Is this true or is it unlikely? I bought the Athlon off compuwiz pretested @1.4. Should I just bump my multiplier to 11x or 10x and bump the FSB up some?

 

[MasterHoss]

It's possible..you are always taking a chance when you up your FSB because it causes your PCI slots and your AGP to run out of spec...of course you can always get a mobo which helps to eliminate this problem.

 

[Daovonnaex]

On chipsets with less than stellar IDE performance, and less than stellar hard disks, it can lead to the early demise of hard disks. Your expansion cards could also be destroyed if the speed is too far out of spec.

 

[Mitzi]

I've been running my Athlon at 146Mhz FSB for a few months now. My 75GXP HDD died in Novemeber - don't know if that was due to the raised FSB or just because it was one of the bad batch of IBM drives. Since then the machine has been running perfectly with the upped FSB.

 

[moocat]

I would be very suprised if peripherals could be damaged by overclocking the FSB. I certainly could be wrong but I just don't see how. Most of the problems from overclocking are due to data and/or clock signal degradation, timing problems, or heat (northbridge and cpu typically are the first to be effected by heat). Of those, only heat could damage a component. Long term damage to logic circuits from overclocking is very possible but in most cases even the shortened life span still far exceeds the normal amount of time the device would be used before becoming obsolete. I suppose very low quality components could be suseptible but most manufacturers do fairly exstensive quality assurance testing during product development by running clock and voltage margins, and exposing components to environmental tests (hot boxes). I'm sure most manufacturers also pull random samples off the assembly line for quality assurance testing.

I would also think that you would have system instability long before actual physical damage could be done to a component from overclocking. Most of the cases of people having failures that seem to be related to overclocking could just be a matter of a weak component being exposed by the faster clock and harsher environment. Those same components might very well have failed under "normal" conditions.

Just my opinion...please feel free to shoot holes in my theory

 

[Rand]

It's certainly possible, though not terribly likely unless you go quite far out of spec.
The BIG one to watch out for though is any PCI SCSI cards, or Hard Drives. Most PCI SCSI cards are rather sensitive to out of spec PCI bus speed, and Hard Drives can also be quite touchy once you get to PCI bus speeds of 40MHz or so.

I've myself killed more then a handful of HDD's by pushing the PCI bus too far.

 

[LukFilm]

I think I have a problem with my hard drive running at 152MHz FSB. Lately when I want to play an mp3 song it simply doesn't want to play and keeps on time 0:00 despite having a 4MB size. Also, some of my videos are only 32kB in size :Q after transferring them around. Now they don't want to play! Is it FSB issue or is my hard drive bad? What do you think?

 

[Sniper82]

I guess I will pass on overclocking the FSB then.