X58 Pro-e unstable or won't boot

Hi all,
I'm having some trouble getting my new board and memory to cooperate. My system is quite unstable. It boots, and it runs fine, but it already froze up a couple of times, and Prime95 gives errors within the minute on almost all 8 threads when trying a blend test.
I tried some settings, preferred (from OCZ forums) are:
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
1N/2N: 2N
I set the timings to (9-9-9-20)
I forced speed to 1333Mhz
DRAM voltage: 1.65v
QPI voltage: 1.35v
But when i try to boot with these settings, it will freeze upon the moment the Windows 7 flag is there and it tries to go into the OS. After that i ran Memtest (4.0), and that came out flawlessly, no errors, with the settings used that are displayed above.
Is there any way to rule out the memory, motherboard or CPU? I really don't know what to do next.
Mobo: MSI X58 PRO-E
BIOS: 8.8
CPU: Intel i7-920
RAM: OCZ3G1333LV6GK
Vid: MSI NX8800GT
PSU: Sharkoon SilentStorm 660W
HDD: 2x502HJ RAID0
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Thanks in advance..!

Quote from: Uittenbogaard on 24-March-10, 19:41:06
I think i'm going to try and get other RAM for my computer. I tried with the 1066 @ 7-7-7-20 and 7-7-7-24 but nothing helps, i also tried with different voltages. I just hear from everywhere that people are having trouble with OCZ memory on the X58 Pro-e.
I'll post again as soon as i have new memory
Yes, I've read here about many peoples troubles with OCZ and was astonished. Guess I'm lucky: When I was chosing the parts for my Eclipse SLI I also was very close to buying OCZ memory as I've got a SSD from them (quite old one, now) which is simply great and exceeding everything I would expect from an SSD of that time...but somehow for the memory I sticked to Corsair, as I've had some good experience with their products in the past. Turns out that this was quite a good idea concerning X58 boards and those memory sticks also work much better than advertised. For example, in 1333 mode I could use drastically reduced timings without a problem, and in 1600 mode the sticks say that they require 1.65v (1.5 for everything else) but they'd even run for hours on 1.5v and have been perfectly stable at 1.55v (probably 1.52v is enough, but I've currently got another problem to figure out, so I'll reduce further when that's solved). I'm using the Corsair CM3x2G1600C7D kit and can really recommend it for appropriate configurations.
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