771 to 775 mod? will it help?

1337rofl

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Good day!
I was looking for upgrading my PC a bit without actually spending a lot of money.

Long story short:
I have an old Asustek P5L-MX motherboard.
The FSB is 1066 and it uses LGA775 socket for the CPU.
The best CPU it can carry according to the motherboard page is a Core 2 Extreme x6800.
When looking online for this processor I noticed that it is no longer for sale anywhere except from China through Ebay, which I rather would not want to do because of the hideous waiting times.

So then I stumbled upon an article that says you can actually use Xeon CPU's designed for 771 sockets, on your 775 socket mobo!

There's a tutorial online on how to do it and it doesn't look too hard, I just had a few questions for people who know something about this:

1. A lot of the Xeon processors are 1333mhz and my mobo supports maximum 1066mhz FSB.
Will the CPU still work? Or do I have to combine another mod that tricks your mobo into allowing 1333mhz?

2. Before performing this 771 to 775 mod, do I need to change any bios settings or perform a bios update?

3. Which Xeon CPU would you reccommend me? My current CPU is an intel Core 2 Duo e6600 2.40ghz slightly overclocked. Anything better than this and not super expensive + able to fit in my PC will do.

Specs:
Asustek P5L-MX motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40ghz CPU
2 x 2GB DDR2 667mhz ram
AMD Radeon HD6670 1GB GPU


I know some things about computers but I'm not a pro at all!
So any tips / pushes in the right direction with this mod are welcome!
 

rhelmar1

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The best xeon you motherboard will support is a xeon 5160. It's a dual core and not really worth the hassle. This is something I would do as a side project but never in my actual main PC.