I did overclock some Atmel microcontrollor chips before, They are rated at 16MHZ and running fine with 20MHZ, some up to about 22MHZ. However, After 1 year working for 24 hours per day, They can run stable at only 20MHZ now, some of them down to 18MHZ.
I tested it with 27MHZ Xtal, It doesn't...