On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote:
> Hi Roeland!
>
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
>
> > > Is it possible that oc'ing my celerons could harm my IDE harddisks?
> > > (Connected to standard IDE, not HPP366)
> >
> > yes it can. it has been reported by people who OC'd beyond bus speed limits
> > IIRC. anyways -- it shows that OC isn't the way to go.
>
> Could it be that my harddisks, or my memory chips are old and can't handle
> those higher FSB speeds? Would it help buying new ones?
Harddisks are connected via IDE (or SCSI) which is connected via PCI. PCI
runs still at 33 MHz if you run FSB at 66 MHz or 100 MHz. So harddisks
can't see any difference.
Memory chips do see a difference, but you buy PC100 chips which are
designed to be running at 100 MHz FSB, right?
Leos
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