I highly doubt it is just coincidence that I happened to be overclocking to 75/83/95/112/124MHz bus speeds. I've smelt RAM melt, and I've messed up a Seagate hard drive. However, my understanding is that alot (if not, most) motherboards don't have this feature, and thus by selecting a higher frontside bus speed, you also increase the operating frequency of the memory, in effect overclocking the memory as well as the CPU, video card, hard drive and anything on the PCI/AGP bus (if you use an odd FSB, which would offset the PCI or AGP frequencies). For example, you can have PC66 SDRAM, running as PC66, while having a 100MHz-FSB CPU running at 100MHZ FSB. If you have a motherboard such as the FIC VA-503+ (using this as example because it's what I have), you can have your memory settings seperate from your CPU settings. But it's not limited to the CPU, you can severely damage everything on your PCI and/or AGP bus, as well as your system memory (RAM). Your CPU can be affected most easily because that is usually the target of the overclock. Depending on what hardware you have, and what methods of overclocking you use, there is a possibility of damage for nearly each component of your computer system (inside the case).
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