What you are proposing is not as straightforward as you may think. Most motherboards designed for 65nm processors don't work with 45nm processors unless they explicitly have a BIOS upgrade that enables the support - I thought my MSI P6N would support the Wolfdales, since it had 1333 FSB support, but that was not the case. The LGA775 socket is not enough to guarantee this, and I had to buy a new board to run an E8400.