SATA or PATA hdd ??

Hi,
I´m planning a hdd upgrade and are a bit unsure what to choose between sata and pata disks.
Up until now I´ve preffered pata disks of several reasons but more and more of high performance hdd are running sata, so my question;
Will I loose any OC capability when running sata disks ?
Will I be able to run the sata disk at same FSB as my PATA ( at least 240-250fsb) without datacorruption, assuming I lock AGP/PCI to 66/33 ????
Is there any other issues involved when talking OC with sata disks on MSI 865pe boards ( No raid) .
Thanks for comments and input.

But, Maesus, like Danny said that he only can go to around 230?
And if I'm not wrong, many users using SATA (1 or 2 which from ICH5) also reported can go only around 230. But this problem goes when they tried to use SATA 3 or 4 (which from 3rd party).
But my board is only standard "P", so my board only have SATA 1 and 2 (from ICH5).
Is it really safe to OC more than FSB 230 with SATA HDD? (as maybe my local store will not accept RMA for HDD only because it's limiting my OC   )
Thanx.
nb: I think I really need new HDD, as mine is so slow on loading. My system is very fast when working only with RAM (app have loaded) + CPU, and become faster after overclocked... but when loading big application at first... fiuhh, I don't feel the speed at all...  

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    Karen Hu
    TechNet Community Support

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