Catalina install on ancient Core 2 Quad Wolfdale CPU with SSE4.1, special requirements?

The Q9400 Wolfdale/Yorkfield system is currently running High Sierra and it is stable. I 'm aware that Apple only supports this CPU generation up to High Sierra, but I saw others here using Wolfdale (or Yorkfield) CPUs at least up to Mojave. Additionally dosdude1 has a Catalina patcher that includes Wolfdale models of iMac, which indicates, that this CPU might still work with Catalina

Does anyone here still run a Wolfdale or Yorkfield CPU successfully with Catalina? Does it run stable? Do you need to change any special settings, such as CPU ID in Clover or OpenCore?

Specs: MB: GA-EP45-UD3L | CPU: Core 2 Quad Q9400 Wolfdale/Yorkfield | GPU: Asus GeForce GT 710 | RAM: 8GB DDR2 G.SKILL 1333MHz | HD: 3TB ST3000DM001 | OS: High Sierra - OpenCore/Clover

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