Advice given on any forum is up to you to decide if you want to try the suggested methods to solve your issues.
What the many volunteers expect in return, generally accepted forum etiquette, is to give as much information as you can, including what you may think is not relevant to the issue at hand.
Most importantly, inform them on what you have previously done. What steps you have followed and what steps you have decided not to follow.
There are many things that seemingly would have absolutely no effect on situation A, but in fact will have an effect.
EDIT:
You should go back to this thread you started and follow the recommendations given in the Crashes and Debugging forum.
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This is no longer a problem since I reinstalled.
Then reply to this thread explain what you did and state why you no longer prefer to continue the Debugging process.
The person is taking their valuable time to help you and you just abandoned the thread.
So their time spent on the last post could have been used helping someone else.
If this type of inconsiderate action continues, the members here will use their time to help others that appreciate the valuable advice given freely.
You are having re-occurring BSoD issues, what you think is "relavant" may be better decided by more experienced members.
You need to FULLY disclose any previous issues and what actions you have done to fix them, if these are half done or possibly incorrect, they might have an impact on your current problems.
Let the more experienced members know what you have done.
You have updated drivers, tried several tools, reportedly un-installed programs possibly causing conflicts, in other threads within the last two weeks.
With this information, members here would not have had to search for drivers that you have already installed, or spend time looking for possible solutions that you have already tried.
It seems
I have linked to the wrong page for the RAM (I didnt know RAM was different for AMD and Intel mobos).
This is the one I bought - its voltage spec
seems to match the AMD edition but the
link says its optimized for Intel...
Should I set it to the manufacturer recommended 1.65V or the SPD/JEDEC recommended 1.5V?
Again, your are looking at settings for Intel, you will need to use settings for AMD.
You will possibly need to bump the RAM voltage to get it stable, but jumping to a much higher voltages is not safe or recommended.
You can damage the RAM and memory controller, which is integrated on your CPU, so the CPU can be damaged.
EDIT:
I've just done some research (e.g.
source 1,
source 2) and it seems that when using "Intel optimized" RAM in an AMD system, you should manually input the voltage and timings because the BIOS wont recognize them correctly by itself. Is this what I should do?
Have you read and understood the link to the OCZ forum, from your 'source2'?
DDR3 1600MHZ and higher issues read here.
This is an older thread, these exact steps do not pertain to your CPU.
Generally these are the type of steps required to overclock RAM.
Some of these basic steps will be required to adjust the RAM voltage.
The important points are slow, small steps, test for stability, retry if not stable.
Know the limits of your RAM, CPU and Memory Controller, do not exceed the voltage limits.
You have been given good advice on how to proceed, you should follow it.
As Mellon Head suggested, again, in post #61, you need to set your RAM settings manually to the manufacturers specs.
Since this RAM is for Intel, the specs listed on their site are not for your motherboard and CPU.
You need to get the specs from OCZ for this RAM on your CPU and motherboard. Since this information is not posted on their site, you should use the SPD JEDEC specs.
Which will not be optimized for your CPU and motherboard.
This could very well be the reason you are getting BSoDs.
These are general specs, as mentioned in the above post, and should allow your computer to start.
You might get lucky and change a couple settings and get the RAM to run stable.
It might take many setting adjustments and stability tests or, may not work at all.
This is why I suggested to return the RAM and get AMD RAM.
From the OCZ website:
Dual Channel DDR3 - Optimized for the AM3 Platform
AMD AM3 DDR3 Platforms Only, 4GB (2x2048MB) D/C Kit PN - OCZ3G1333LVAM4GK