MSI P55-GD65 and Trident 4GB Kit

[ab0x]

I searched the forums but the only thread I found that related to this had different specs, so I wasn't entirely sure if it applied. I'm a noob so take time in explaining please.

Motherboard: MSI P55-GD65 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
Memory: G.SKILL Trident 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL9D-4GBTD
CPU: Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core

When I go into the BIOS is says my memory is running at 1333, but I can't figure out how to get it up to 2000 (technically it isn't overclocking to set it at 2000mhz, since it's DDR3 2000, right?)

Has anyone else done this with this motherboard? The settings are super crazy (I mean, I am a noob, but on my old motherboard I could just set the speed right off). One other thing is that when I turn on the XMP profile in the BIOS all the memory settings look perfect, but when I go to save and reboot, the computer doesn't post and it just gets stuck in a reboot cycle. I have to physically remove one of the sticks of RAM and reset the memory settings in the BIOS in order to get it to work again.

I've attached the CPU-z profile of my system, any help is greatly appreciated!

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Update: someone in another forum suggested that I needed to overclock the base CPU mhz from 133 to 200 in order for it to be able to use 2000mhz RAM. After doing this it did indeed work, but the automatic timings were way off.

First I tried enabling the XMP profile, but the same problem happened: I got stuck in an endless reboot loop. After resetting everything I overclocked from 133 to 200 again, except this time I kept all the RAM settings on auto and left the XMP profile alone. I was able to get into windows, but after about 15 minutes I received a blue screen and the computer shutdown.

I went back into BIOS and looked at the RAM settings, and they were way off (at least they were very different from the SPD XMP-2000 profile in CPU-Z). They were set at: 9-9-9-25-98-1T. I changed them to 9-9-9-28-47-2T and saved BIOS. Once again I was stuck in an endless reboot cycle. What the hell is going on?

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Does anyone have any ideas/help?

[GSKILL TECH]

Make sure CPU VTT is set to 1.40V, may even need a tad bit more.

Other than that, you can use XMP, or enter all the settings manually, and everything should run just fine.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

[ab0x]

I set the VTT to 1.39 and 1.404 (for some reason BIOS won't let me set it to 1.4 exactly) and my computer still gets stuck in a reboot cycle.

[GSKILL TECH]

Do you have the latest BIOS? Did you test one module at a time?

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[ab0x]

I finally got it to boot to Windows with your help. Here are my BIOS settings, and a CPU-z profile of my system. Please give me comments and suggestions regarding things I may have done incorrectly:

CPU Voltage: 1.25
VTT Voltage: 1.404
DRAM Voltage: 1.65 (even though CPU-z says the XMP uses 1.60v ???)
PCH: 1.10v
PLL: 1.80v

Also, when I enabled the XMP profile in BIOS, CPU-z still said the RAM's command rate was 1T, so I went into BIOS and manually changed it from 3T (???) to 2T, and now it works.

I've been running Prime95 for the past couple hours, no problems so far.

[GSKILL TECH]

Nicee! Looks perfect. If it is stable, you can just leave it.

Enjoy!

Thank you
GSKILL TECH