Clock Skews

[fatguy1992]

Can setting clock skews wrong damage my computer at all?

Thanks

[mikeyakame]

Short answer yes.
Long answer YESSSSSSSSSSS.

Before playing with them understand what they do, and why exactly you want or need to change them.

They won't damage your computer physically, but they can sure as hell wipe your cmos or corrupt your OS to oblivion if you play with them blindly without any kind of understanding how to set each one up.

Heres a couple of pointers.

NB Clock Skew is dangerous. Be wary when playing with it, try and find out what others have used as a base value. I see you are using a P45, I don't personally know about GB but Asus boards need 100-200ps NB Skew at over 450FSB on a quad.
CPU Clock Skew is a little less dangerous, normally you'll get a hard lock up before anything major goes wrong. Like I said with GB not sure, Asus P45 boards need about 300-400ps with 100-200ps NB skew above 450mhz FSB.
Dram Clock skews if delayed too heavily will corrupt your OS or give you random behavioural issues. Nobody can help you with these but yourself since all boards and memory are different. Use memtest86+ to test stability/no errors before going near OS.

Have a good day and make sure you use bios profiles (if available) or otherwise note your good settings down on paper, cause if you screw up and it wipes your CMOS data you'll have a field day figuring out what you set previously that works

[fatguy1992]

Thanks for the info.

On my UD3P I have done 515FSB (not fully stable, but at least 75%+) with out any clock skews.

Also I can remember all my BIOS settings in my head - I have a good memory for certain things.

[mikeyakame]

Thanks for the info.

On my UD3P I have done 515FSB (not fully stable, but at least 75%+) with out any clock skews.

Also I can remember all my BIOS settings in my head - I have a good memory for certain things.

If you remember them that well you need to change more
You clearly arent changing enough of them to remember them implicitly.

Last time I thought I knew all mine, turned out I changed a bunch in between and forgot to memorize their values! Days of fine adjusting lost because I put faith in my memory instead of my pen and paper

[fatguy1992]

I'm serous I have a really good memory. The only thing I have on auto are some of the random ram setting cause I don't care what they do and changing them has never helped.