83MHz FSB? Is it really that bad?

[Frio]

I have a Celeron 633 SL4NY on an Asus P2B board with an Asus S370-DL slocket. I'm using the Intel hsf and so far, I've only had it post at 950 a few times at varying vcores. It always crashes loading 2k. I can run it stabily at 791 but that is using the 83MHz fsb and I've heard lots of bad things about that. I have it running at 719 at the 75MHz fsb and its stable too, but the benchmarking is considerably lower and I notice a decrease in performace when, especially when playing DivX. How safe is the 83MHz fsb and does anyone think that if i get a GlobalWin FOP38 & some Arctic Silver II that I might be able to get it to run at 950? Thanx.

[Storm]

83MHz FSB pushes the PCI speed from it's standard 33MHz to 41.5MHz. This can cause data loss from your hard drive if it can't cope with the overclocked PCI speed... never a good thing :)

If you have better cooling and a mobo with voltage adjustment, 950MHz may well just be possible, especially if your CPU is of the latest cc0 stepping :)