FSB effects on HDD

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Luke1i1

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Hi

When you increase the FSB(mine's currently at 200MHZ)to being anything higher then what it starts at do you risk damaging the HDD to a point of where it would eventually break or does it just cause stability issues and the HDD will be fine?

Thanks

Luke
 
linkin93 said:
umm... Overclocking does not affect any other components... especially a HDD!
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ok thanks, i wanted to make sure that when i adjusted my fsb to a higher setting to make up for installing ddr3 1600mhz ram i wasn't slowly burning out my HDD.

When i do push my fsb to a higher setting does it pull more data from the HDD then it does at stock setting?
 
Okay then. Then no, the speed of the fsb doesnt affect the speed of the link to your harddrive.

edit: I wasn't sure on your choice of words. Like some people call the entire computer for a harddrive :)
 
So just to clarify i could run my fsb at the max setting before the system became unstable and it wouldn't effect my HDD in any way such as destroying it more quickly?

Thanks

Luke
 
One thing to note though: on some cheaper motherboards all bus speeds are locked (i.e. you can't over/underclock any of the buses separately), so OCing anything would lead to PCI&PCI-E being overclocked and possibly becoming unstable. I heard several instances where OCing the computer would bump up the PCI-E link speed causing all devices attached to it act funky, including the SATA controller, and resulting in some of the stuff getting corrupted. It still won't DAMAGE the HD, but losing data is a slight possibility.

If you're talking about OCing the computer in your sig, never mind what I just said.
 
hackapelite said:
One thing to note though: on some cheaper motherboards all bus speeds are locked (i.e. you can't over/underclock any of the buses separately), so OCing anything would lead to PCI&PCI-E being overclocked and possibly becoming unstable. I heard several instances where OCing the computer would bump up the PCI-E link speed causing all devices attached to it act funky, including the SATA controller, and resulting in some of the stuff getting corrupted. It still won't DAMAGE the HD, but losing data is a slight possibility.

If you're talking about OCing the computer in your sig, never mind what I just said.
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Thanks, thats useful to know as i have heard of something simular to that before but not as well described, that is why i wasn't sure.

Thanks

Luke
 
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