Wow, just wow Harmy, that lightsaber sequence looks absolutely incredible. I can't believe you got that level of improvement done that quickly... So, how did you end up doing it? Rotoscoping I'd expect would take a while...
Also, that sucks about the motherboard, especially since you were one of the few people not trying to screw them, but honestly having a problem. So, I'm not familiar with modern Intel stuff (when I build myself, I go AMD, but I get a lot of used Intel or Intel in laptops), do they not put pins on the processor anymore but on the motherboard? I have a 2 x quad core Xeon server here (that's 2 processors, 8 physical cores, and incredibly cheap to buy...) that seems to do it that way. Actually, it is funny, mine is technically supposed to be a low voltage variant, but a bit of electrical tape over a "pin" on each processor allows the FSB to go at full speed, therefore the processors run like the non low voltage version. Anyway, I wasn't expecting to see that manufacturing process outside of server grade stuff...