Overclock damage?

Silver_Blade

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I got an old 1GHz T-bird for a system I´m building. I´m quite amazed how well it overclocks, it´s a 200MHz FSB version, and I have it running completely stable at 8,5 x 147 (294MHz) and a 1,6Vcore. It´s performing far above my expectations, still the PCI bus is running at 37MHz and I´ve heard that it could damage my hardware. Is this true, or is this problem only related with using really old hardware (PCI, CD-ROM and HDD)?

By the way, my harddrive is not running on the PCI bus, it says "Embedded bus" in BIOS, anyone know what that means?
 

chuck232

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Technically speaking, if your AGP/PCI buses gets to high, then it could burn out your peripherals in those slots. (The default are 33MHz for the PCI and 66MHz for the AGP.) 37MHz isn't bad. If you got above 40MHz, I'd start worrying.

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