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Merom and Yonah are pin compatable yes, but they are not neccisarily (im tired cant spell sry guys lol) mobo compatable. Similar to the Core duo and Core 2 duo's, yes its the same pin layout but if the bios dosnt SPECIFICALLY SAY it supports the proc then its a crap shoot. A bios flash might work, but might not. Intel has this problem of making cpus with the same pin layout, but arnt interchangeable nothing new shouldnt expect it to change either lol. AMD on the other hand just had a different socket for everything (when AM2 was initially released there were 4 different proc layouts being fabbed 939, 940, 754, AM2 which btw is 940 pins but its laid out differently from the socket 940 boards so AM2 wont fit in older socket 940 boards lol)
Basically if the box dosnt specifically SAY Core 2 Duo support, then they might be able to do a bios revision they might not. My suggestion is only buy the board if it says it supports it on the box, or on the manufacturers site compatability list (for your mobo of course).
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