Impressive, I had no idea this would be possible, or indeed feasible, due to BIOS support.
Reading the link though, it seems that just supporting similar CPUs *should* be enough, which kind of makes sense.
If one was available in the UK (I'll have a search in a minute) I might order one and try it out, it's cheap enough, seems interesting and I have a few 771 Xeons doing nothing.
Edit: it looks like it would be trivial to do the mod yourself actually, although buying this would be easier and potentially more reversible.