Waiting for Conroe, can I use a Celeron D?

[scca325is]

This is the board I bought recently(P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe) The Asus website says it will support a "Celeron CPU". Does this mean it will support a Celeron "D"? I am waiting for the Conroe to come back in stock, in the meantime I need something cheap to get my PC up and running. How does a Celeron D 326 sound? Too cheap?

 

[DaveSimmons]

It will work (slowly) fine if it's socket 775 celery. This will also let you flash the BIOS if you need to for better compatibility with core 2.

Good enough for word processing and Quake 3

 

[mayest]

Yup, it'll work. I'm using a Celeron D 351 (3.2 Ghz) and it isn't so bad.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Yea, I'm using a 2.8 Ghz celeron D. It works decent, but I'm not running any modern software yet (just HL2 and WoW ATM). There's certain things I notice going particularly slow, but for the most part it's suitable.

 

[Talcite]

If you have to buy it... then I'd say the D805. That guy goes for ~100 cdn, and it overclocks like a 965EE. Of course that's assuming you have good ram, a good mobo, and good cooling, and a good psu.