I got the second quad core processor and installed it this weekend. I built various kernels between the 3.2.0 series and the 3.10.2 series. I traced the problem to a change in the file i2c-i801.c that occurred between 3.7.10 and 3.8.1 where they defaulted to enabling interrupts. I found some leads in the kernel forums that suggested to disable the interrupts for that driver. By creating a file in /etc/modprobe.d named i2c-i801.conf with the line options i2c_i801 disable_features=0x10 the interrupts are disabled, the problem goes away and the system loads correctly. This apparently disables access to the SMBus which is what is causing the problem.
from dmesg
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[ 16.754217] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: Interrupt disabled by user
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lspci reports
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00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SATA IDE Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 09)