2.4 Celeron running at 3.6Ghz?

[none67]

Hey, ok in light of my new computer knowledge (which is a little limited lol..) I decided to play with the BIOs on my parents computer.. I set the CPU frequency from "default" to "200MHz" and it started running at 3.6 GHz! Is this a normal thing? I changed it back, but i'm afraid I may have hurt something, is this possible?

Its just a 2.4 Intel Celeron D...

Thanks.

 

[crazlunatic]

You'll fry your celeron in less than a day in my opinion.

 

[none67]

Well, I only had it running for about 2 min. max. Just woundering if I could have hurt it.. its not really my computer. I was just looking at the BIOs and got carried away lol..

 

[PizzatheHut06]

You went straight from 2.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz? I think you're lucky Windows booted.

 

[none67]

Oh? I didn't mean to, I thuoght it might run at like 2.5-2.6 or somthing.. just doing some tests and learning as I go.. As long as I didn't hurt anything..

But yea, 2.4 to 3.6. Booted fine.. and really fast haha.

 

[VIII]

lmao..... nice first o'c =)

 

[WARLORD88]

lol u over clocked your celeron, its ok if u did but then u would need some crazy heatsink's and fans all over your parts to keep them cool.
Nothing bad will happen since it was on 2min max.

 

[waynejkruse10]

that would really shorten the life of your chip i wouldnt recomend it without a really massive heatsink. You could try upping it to 2.8 or 3.0 ghz, thats more realistic, but i would still recomend a better heatsink.

 

[phosho510]

nice first lucky ocing. yea that would really take the life out of your cpu

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Nice OC