Bizarre BSODs with new OcUK gear

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Hello,

I'm hoping someone here has an idea as to where my problems may lie, before I start RMA'ing with a passion!

I bought one of these:
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL)
with one of these:
Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard

along with an i5 750, corsair H50, and coolermaster scout case. Installation was easy peasy and it booted first time, installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Shortly after installing device drivers (latest available from the appropriate vendors website), I start getting random but frequent BSOD's. Errors range from MEMORY_MANAGEMENT to page fault errors, but always relating to the ntoskrnl32.exe process.

So the troubleshooting begins, I remove one of the sticks of RAM and we return to rock solid stability.
Go to work. Return 10 hours later.
Fiddle around with getting the case LEDs working and replacing a HDD that coolermaster's cable destroyed :: OFF TOPIC - http://destiny.destr0yer.net/sata.jpg - what a joke, the metal retention clip (hardly needed on SATA connector) refused to let go and instead SNAPPED THE PLASTIC OFF THE DRIVE, cue rage and profanity at volume :: RESUME TOPIC
so I end up re-seating the RAM and try again with both sticks, to my surprise all is well - no BSODs, nice and stable. I even gingerly attempt an overclock - 21x 150Mhz (3.15GHz) and all is well, rock solid all night, playing games, reboots, etc etc. Sorted.
Go to bed.
Wake up this morning and upon booting into windows it's seemingly forgotten about last night's stability, as I get a BSOD before it finishes loading startup programs. Reboot, into desktop, BSOD (different error msg). Reboot, into desktop, BSOD (again different error msg). SIGH
Pull out a stick of RAM (tried removing the one that was working OK the day before), and heyho - no BSODs.

So the facts:
1) brand new hardware, correctly matched and rated
2) windows based RAM testers report 0 errors (curiously memtest86 v4 reports 100% errors and 0% passes.... I put this down to program error)
3) each stick works fine independantly
4) dual channel FUBARs everything..... sometimes.

Ideas? Thoughts? :(
 
Thanks for the reply. No - BIOS reporting it as being the correct figures so I left it to auto. 1.5V for this DDR3 RAM.
 
On ocuk site the ram says 1.65v tested, i assume that means to run at rated speed it needs 1.65v for the ram to be set in bios, and of course with overclocking you risk instability, personally i would load defaults and forget overclocking untill your sure the ram is at fault, would also set it to 1.65v and manualy set the timings that are listed for them, also check your manual for the correct slots to use the ram in.
 
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