Merom on GM45: Will the Intel GM45 run a 65nm CPU?

[newParadigm]

I have a customer that I need to build a replacement system for. The old system is an AOpen barebones (Digital Engine DE45-HG). I found the requisite barebones kit on the Egg, but they have no Penryn socket P chips available. They have a Merom socket P chip, but I am not going to just assume that b/c it's the same socket that it'll work.

**SO**

The Question: Will a 65nm Merom chip run on an Intel GM45 Chipset based board, even though Intel technically states compatibility only with 45nm Core2 chips and a select group of 65nm Celeron chips.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Maybe. Like Intels Xeons sometimes aren't suppose to run in a 1155 but it does.

 

[newParadigm]

Maybe. Like Intels Xeons sometimes aren't suppose to run in a 1155 but it does.

I am going to assume that the socket Xeon's use has 1155pins, but is not supposed to be pin compatible with socket 1155?

Other people please chime in...if the architecture is the same, and the change from merom to penryn was just a die shrink, then this should work...