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I saw this video about how to double your cpu speed that looked legit.
So I went through all the steps. Then like an idiot afterwords I decided to look at the user comments and saw that it was a joke. So I went through the whole process to undo what I changed. The one thing I am not sure about is at 6:42 he says to click the highest number. For mine the highest number was 4. So should I have reset that to a 1 or a 0?

I know that from now on I need to be very careful about any how to video for anything and check the description, likes/dislikes and comments. Usually how to videos aren't carefully staged jokes like this as*hole made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unagKHPGt8



Edit: There was yet another video for the same thing and this one wasn't supposed to be a joke. Anyways someone wrote in the comments section "this guy is a complete idiot. This will totally screw your pc. If you try it and find out, then to fix it just go to the same advanced boot option and tick the box labelled debug and apply and ok restart. Should get you back to where you started from." So I clicked the debug box and restarted. 

I would be more worried about viruses with this then anything else. If you PC didn't smoke and or just die outright then it did not hurt anything on a hardware level. As for Windows, I'd do clean install to be 100% or you can run a virus scan. As for ACTUAL overclocking to make your PC faster by manipulating voltages and clock speed frequencies, while you can do those in Windows, its better to do that on a bios / cmos level. If your voltage is raised too high, you can destroy hardware this way but most modern computers will just die if voltages or frequencies get too high / unstable and can be fixed by resetting the c-mos. If you want to really overclock instead of following a fraud, I suggest reading a lot and then read some more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking

Yeah, overclocking isn't going to work very well if you don't have the proper cooling setup.

I tried OCing a Pentium 1 once back in the 90s, but haven't bothered since.

BTW, OC won't do much for videogames, if that's what you're thinking. Games hardly use any CPU at all these days, since most of the heavy work is done by the graphics accelerator card.

For better or worse, at least you learned something. And that is not to trust everything you see.

ThioJoe has done these videos in the past. He doesn't do them anymore because of how many people fall for these tricks. He just does news on technologies and maybe some others.

I would like to add is to also double check sources on the internet to make sure it wasn't a trick before pursuing.

Overclocking has a pretty significant impact on videogame performance if you're playing at higher framerates or in VR.

I meant overclocking your CPU. I forgot that GPUs can also be overclocked.

He makes a video about people falling for his videos.

I know you meant the CPU and that's what I was referring to overclocking. Many CPU tasks are tied to frames; a jump from 60 to 90 fps is 50% more load for completing those tasks on time. Plus the often made statement that CPU doesn't affect games much at all is a weird myth that's been perpetuated for a long time. A lot of games aren't heavily multithreaded and will max a CPU thread, and then you have people looking at the total CPU load being 20% or so and saying the CPU isn't stressed when it's clearly maxed.