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You'll be fine with that, as long as all the pins fit and make full contact. I'd say to make sure you have the CPU seated firmly in the socket & use some decent thermal paste. As for overclocking.... It reduces your CPU's life by about 15%. A CPU's standard lifespan is somewhere between 15-20 years. In reality this means an overclocked CPU will only last you 7-10 years at minimum. Which is still approximately 2-5 years longer than most people will keep a PC. So using the argument that your CPU will die sooner when overclocked isn't really valid. The only thing you need to worry about is having a steady current on the 12v rail and not giving the CPU too much voltage. Some tools you might want to look up:
CPU-Z
Speedfan
Super Pi
These will help give you an Idea of how well your system is running.
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