I don't know how to explain it, depending on the chirp area/ location, and how deep, perhap it will give your motherboard some weird up and down jumps of vott, mess up informations , too much power at time, too little power at time, slowerly killing the cpu and the motherboard with it. I'm sure it's possible. cause if you have many hard resets or freeze it'll damage something right? That's why I said the worse case is that it'll kill your motherboard.
Its' pretty much like drink and drive,, the worse case is that you kill someone along with yourself. very bad.,, or get a DUI, may reck your car, ETC, anything could happen, depending on how much you drank, and how much you could take. You might even wake up with a nice looking chick on your lap .,, or on you male friends lap., NOOOOOOOO! :Q
"VAPE" How did your CPU get cook? my friend is using a xp1700+ @ xp1900+ on his ABIT KT7E which is pretty much a KT7a, but cheaper and colored blue. it works fine with a pretty old bios. The bios my friend was using was not consider AMD XP supportive because it show mhz instead of the RATED SPEED. So I see 1460 mhz, for xp1700+ instead