Plus motherboards are already defective way more often than cpus as it is. The LGA socket just makes it even more likely that you will get a dead board.
Yeah, they're going to pull a movie that's already been completely shot, and paid for. These hackers are really stupid if they think this will actually work.
It would be a decent upgrade, although I'm not sure why you can't get a steady 60fps in battlefield at 1080p... I was able to push 60fps on medium with a single 660ti at 1440p before I got my second card.