old hardware tinkering
ok, i came across two old motherboards, one being a "socket 775 asus p5pe-vm" and another being a "socket 775 asrock conroe1333-d667 rev. 2.0". then i came across another chip, a celeron wolfdale 45nm, e3300 socket 775 2.5ghz default fsb800. now yes its a celeron, but these are one of the most easily oc'able celerons out there, and reports on the net say that it EASILY hits 3.6ghz easy WITHOUT changes in voltage or cooling. both mainboards i know are flashed to the latest firmwares and are already set at fsb800. the question i'm having is can i safely slap the cpu in the 775 without cooking anything? i heard just 'cause the socket fits, doesn't mean it will work. i just want to know if i can safely boot up at stock on any of these two boards and then if i can boot at stock i want to oc the crap out of this chip. at stock, its as fast as an athlon ii x2 240 (which isn't bad). as an amd-er i haven't had 'much' experience with intel chips, but this could really be a nice/decent experimental machine. would anything bad happen?
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I get get jumped on when I write books, but can chime in to questions some safely here.
None of what I can say without a lot of testing and info is absolute, seen exceptions to ALL I've said in 36 years of tinkering and playing and building systems some also. So no, cannot say yes absolutely, but with what you say about known good stuff, probably ok to try tinkering. I keep a fire extinguisher handy and tinker in garage. But I have seen some Intel Celerons run over ten years.