The idea here is to start w/ a higher uncore voltage, and then progressively work your way down. Some chips require upwards of >1.5 VTT to run stably w/ a DRAM frequency of 1600MHz or higher. If Prime fails w/ the voltage between 1.5 - 1.6V, then the BSOD issue is being caused by something else.
OK so I tested all slots with different sticks individually, tried 1 and 2 sticks, no errors.
Then put in 3 and got no errors all day...
now all of a sudden I'm getting a new bluescreen: System_Service Exception
errors came back again in prime95, just upped the QPI to 1.6, CPU is getting too hot but no errors (i'm still on the stock cooling). Going to install new cooling and slowly lower voltage. thanks, this may have worked I'll update if I start getting new errors
**update - reinstalled new cooling (have the cuts all over my fingers to prove it...i hate motherboard pins), QPI is at 1.6, running prime 95 now....at least I can rest easy knowing my CPU won't fry (the stock cooler on these things is terrible and I still haven't upgraded my fan or washer modded my TRUE heatsink so I'm still not OCing material)
usually I get errors in 1st few minutes...so far so good
ok cpu temps still approaching 80 degrees after like 10 min prime95 (my normal load temps are 70 highest on stock cooling, with unmodded TRUE about same), but no errors after 5 min. Will let this run for a bit pending my CPU doesn't start heating up like crazy.
On a side note I'm really disappointed with intel. I called them and they basically told me the CPU gets hot and their fan stinks. OCing this thing is going to be annoying