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Since I went back to 2x8gb of memory (instead of 4x8gb), I don't have any more crashes! Having said that, 4x8gb at 3200Mhz was stable, the crashes came for clocking the memory at 3600 and beyond.
With a 5800X I would have thought that 1800 FSB and ram at 3600 would be fine assuming your ram is rated for that. In my own case I got crashes at default ram speeds which are of course 2133, so RAM was never a determining factor (alth9ough I did change my ram over to a new set with my previous 5950X without any effect). If you are only using 3200 ram, don't assume 3600 will just work.
As mentioned above, the RMA did the trick. It's now been two weeks and I've had no crashes or unexplained events at all, and I am running at full XMP/DOCP which in my case is 3600 (with matching 1800 FSB which even AMD reports as being ok).
I suspect there are a few small numbers of early batches out there that probably went a little wrong and AMD has attempted to sweep things under the carpet quickly. Regardless, I am very happy with the replacement processor, and when I have a little time I might even try a bit of clock tuning using the curve optimiser. Regardless, this new chip is an absolute beast and now that I have zero crashes, is a joy to use.