Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
The BSODs might be related to hardware issues on your end or needing to update drivers. You would experience the same issues if you were running a game or so.. because all it is doing is giving permission to use all your cores/memory on boot-up.
Gaming performance is actually quite good. Rock solid stability and it provides good FPS on modern games for a system that's over 5 years old.

I think I figured out the problem, but I doubt I'll bother confirming it because it turns out that the boot settings are just for debugging anyhow and your system will use the max available memory and cores by default. All the boot options can do is artificially limit it.

For the record though, I suspect it was the max memory setting. There is a 1MB discrepancy between what Windows sees available (8191MB) and what msconfig filled in when I checked the box (8192).