Does overclocking the FSB affect the...

[touser]

Hi all this has been bugging me for some time and I was just wondering..Does overclocking the FSB affect peripherals? the reason I ask is I just bought a firewire HD and I was wondering if it is going to affect it at all, like cause more heat just like it does for my internal hard drives? Thanks in advance :)

[Shadow ÒÓ]

by raising your fsb you'll also rasing the rate at which data is transferred (yes, even in firewire). So your answer is yes. And extreme speeds are more likely to cause data corruption, so make sure you keep everything backed up (obviously).

Here's a twist.....if the firewire device is on a PCI card (ie Audigy sound card) and you spec the pci to 33 mhz with the pci deviders (after oc'ing), would there be a chance of data corruption? I would assume so since the data still has to make it TO and FROM the PCI card, which would be running higher than spec speeds...but would slow down once it hit the PCI card.

[touser]

thank you shadow for the detailed answer! its funny that you used the audigy sound card as an example as that is what i am using to connect the hard drive to my pc through! so now i have one last question if you don’t mind...i am overclocking this system with a FSB of 118, and i am using this firewire HD to back everything up on, with a FSB of 118 on the system in my sig, is there a high chance of data corruption? if so i think i will leave the HD unplugged from the system unless i am backing things up onto it.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

what do you have the PCI devider set at? 1 to 1 would mean you're running your PCI in direct proportion to the raised FSB.

[touser]

thanks again shadow, i looked around in my bios for something called pc divider and didnt find it :( but when i went to the pc health menu under the bios i found 118/39.33, so would that mean my pci bus is at 39.33mhz?

[TASOS]

I believe you have reached the limit line for the pci speed.
Danger awaits !!!

[Shadow ÒÓ]

yip...fsb is 118.....pci is 39.33

[PDL]

Would raising it just a little more cause the divisor to go to 1/4 instead of 1/3, thus giving the PCI a speed of say 31.25(125/4).
OK, I don't know about this board but my A7V133 works that way!