The clock stopped.
The hobbyist rebooted. The core retrained its DDR3. It advanced past POST, past GRUB, into the kernel loader. The panic repeated. Reboot. Panic. Reboot. Panic. intel64 family 6 model 58 stepping 9
The thermal interface material was replaced with liquid metal. The core multiplier was raised from 34x to 42x. Voltage climbed to 1.325V. Core temperature settled at 79°C. The clock stopped
Every single one. One night, during a reorg of the blockchain, Core 217 received a RDTSC instruction—Read Time-Stamp Counter. It fetched the internal 64-bit counter, now at 0x000001C8A2B1F5E3. during a reorg of the blockchain