Originally posted by: dwcal
Yeah, that's important. Any decent MB should have a PCI bus lock, but if not, OCing your PCI bus over ~38Mhz has a big risk of HD corruption. I haven't had any corruption from doing hard shutdowns after a system freeze, but there's a small risk of corruption there too.
I have a question about this, I've never been clear about this facet of overclocking.
I have a hdd on my SATA 1 port of my DFI nf4 board. I've noticed that as I increase the htt of my new opty, it takes longer during boot to detect the hdd, CD drive, etc. Could this be a symptom of other components being overclocked that do not need to be? Am I putting undue strain on my other components?