a random question

[AMD_Forever]

Normally, overclocking the FSB overclocks the PCI bus and thus can make some hard drives fail. However, with current chipsets the IDE function is part of the south bridge (as it always has been), and the south bridge is not on the PCI bus anymore. So, therefore, does overclocking the FSB still have the ability to make HDD's lose data etc?

*this could have been in motherboards because of talking about chipsets, or general hardware for being about hdds, but, i put it here anyways.

[bobgod007]

Its important to remember that overclocking the FSB is really a misnomer. In reality, you increase the clock generator frequency. As such, anything that runs of the clock generator will increase in frequency. This includes the CPU, Northbridge (thus including the AGP and memory buses) and the Southbridge. I'm not sure how much of an overclock it would require before you began to lose data, and I'm sure this is situation dependent, but overclocking the FSB means that the Southbridge (PCI/ATA) is overclocked as well.

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