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What exact RAM do you have, can you check in CPU-Z and post a screenshot of the SPD tab back?
Are they 512MB, 1GB, 2GB or 4GB modules?

First set both modules in the slots next to each other (green+orange). That will be dual channel (manual is wrong).

If it's 1GB or less modules then set the RAM tRFC to 105ns.

Which BIOS are you using? Don't try 1066 RAM with any BIOS before P0E.

When you oc speed/volts, speed affects TDP but voltage affects it by the square. So if using a constant current, you would have to use the formula I posted before to work out your new TDP: Pn = Pt.(vn/vt).(Unē/Utē)

dr_drache: I checked your logs through. You have the famous bugcheck:
Code:
Bug Check 0x101: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

The CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT bug check has a value of 0x00000101. This indicates that an expected clock interrupt on a secondary processor, in a multi-processor system, was not received within the allocated interval.
It means your processor has become unresponsive i.e. locked. It's caused either by instability (lack of voltage/heat buildup/bad PSU rails/volts), software incompatibility or software-driver-OS problem. It could be anything but it is looking most like a Vista x64 issue since it references the 64b kernel and kernel modules in the stack just before the problem.
I'm going to get some more symbols and debug it a little more later on. Need to update some files.
That bug right there sounds a lot like Errata 254, possibly 298, which may explain why MS applied a software TLB fix in Vista SP1. So if the voltage delta between memory and IMC also causes an issue, then perhaps 1.8v memory was the way to go?

In other news though, I got my new Toxic Edition 3870 installed now, with 8.3 drivers. Not have any of the issues I had with the other card, even while having the CPU OCed.

Hmmm finding the actual values for current, could be difficult since it can't be measured properly without making the Multimeter a part of the circuit. But it does make sense that the actual current in the die usage could be 67amps. After all the hard input to the cpu out of the PSU is 12v, and draws about 6.7 amps off the 12v rails. Considering a CPU staging area is a massive parallel circuit, which if set up right divides voltage, and after the voltage is divided, you could put a current amplifier circuit off of each branch. When I was doing electronic classes in such in college it wasn't difficult to set up an amp circuit that could take 200mA in and output 2Amps, granted in those circumstances the voltage wasn't lowered so soon after the resistors and transistors would start to let the magic operating smoke out.