Processor upgrade is this possible

I have a broken 1.8ghz G5 which according to the apple repair centre has a faulty processor, (not happy only 18 months old and only used about once a week).
They are wanting £340+vat to fix this, but i can get hold of a second hand 2.0ghz processor for about £160 would this processor work with my mac? and is it easy to install, i work as a pc engineer so i'm ok with the taking pc's to bits.

There is some discussion of this subject which you can read if you enter say, "processor upgrade" (without the quotes) in the search box at top right of this forum
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?objID=c108&search=Go&q=processor+upgrad e

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