I have an old Alienware desktop that has been updated with parts except the motherboard, CPU, and PSU. I'm pretty sure it's the Aurora R1 with a 4VWF2 board and LGA 1366 socket because it has an i7-920.
Anyways, I'm wondering whether, despite listing its only supported processors as i7 9xx, I could replace the processor with a Intel Xeon X5650? It's the same socket, but my question is essentially: can I replace a "desktop" processor with a "server" processor? I heard that the CPU has auto-overclocking so if I replaced it with a non-overclockable CPU, would it cause any issues?
Unrelated to the previous question, but for the same desktop, I'm also having crashing issues - the video signal freezes, the audio that's currently playing (if any) glitches in repetition, then my screen goes gray, and the system reboots. In Event Viewer, it shows up as a Kernel-Power, error code 41, Any idea what could be causing this?