Just wondering, what would happen if you hooked up a faster MHz crystal oscillator? For instance, I have a few dead motherboards, all of which have slightly faster crystal oscillators. (~21.7 and random speeds between 20 and 25 MHz) If I were to hook up a faster crystal oscillator would it just fry, get warmer, run faster etc.
I would guess that it would get warmer and run faster (and draw more power) but I'm a total newbie when it comes to electronics. (I'm just starting to understand resistors to the point where I'm getting to the math part of it.)
Your Serial communication baud rates would be off too and you may not be able to bootload new programs unless you upload a new bootloader to take into account the changed frequency.
XD I wasn't planning on doing it, I was just wondering if my suppositions were correct. (Which apparently they were.) For what I'm doing, it's kind of pointless to overclock it as I'm just doing basic LED controlling at the moment. But, I did want to know just because I'm curious.
(@Richard, Thanks for the knowledge, but I'm just new to pcb components. I'm actually quite well versed in full out computer components. ^_^; Sorry if I sounded that newbish.)
