Also:

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One of the game companies said that they're going to have to roll back some bans. They thought some people were cheating because the state of the game client was inconsistent with the state of the game server for some people enough that they were like "we don't know what they're doing, but the game client is inconsistent with the server...we're just going to ban them"

Yeah, I'm wondering about what kinds of other nasty secondary fallout there will be. One reason that I didn't want to spend time on this further -- was willing to just eat the cost of the motherboard and a pair of CPUs and go AMD -- was because I was developing root filesystem corruption just trying to boot with multiple cores, and I didn't want to experiment on that further. It's just not worth it to me as an individual dealing with a dicked-up filesystem to try to track down a piece of bad hardware. Like, there's going to be unpleasant fallout out there with other people from data loss when a lot of CPUs are garbling data somehow.