Robilar, from what your describing it sounds like the spd wasnt programmed properly. was there no spd update for that memory? didnt ocz manage to fix this for ya? usually all you need is update the spd which takes 1 minute...

we at cellshock had problems like this with some of our first series ddr3 as well. the problem really is that jedec is too slow in certifying stuff and setting up specifications, so everybody kinda does his thing, and then they finally DO settle for one way of doing it which causes some people who did things different from that some trouble.