MSI 68A-GD65 (G3) ram problems

My board will not boot when I add 16gb of ram. I upgraded the bios to n5. It seem when I add a stick to the to the black slot I believe it is DIMM 2 with will continuously boot loop. I have tried all of the sticks in various combinations and my system runs stable with 12 gb of ram. It just doesn't seem to work when I put a stick in that particular slot. My ram is Gskill ripjawX 4gbx4. I am running windows 7 ultimate 64 bit and I have xmp in the bios on profile 1. My ram is running at 2133 mhz. Any Ideas? Is my board screwed up?

Quote from: bignick243 on 30-January-12, 06:34:28
I don't know what the F I just did but it all works now! I put two sticks in slots 2 and 4 and it booted up just fine. Then I added a stick to slot 1 and it booted up. So then I added the final stick to slot 3 and it booted up right away. I enabled xmp and it seems to be running fine at 2133 mhz. I'm 100% certain I tried this combination yesterday and it continuously rebooted. I would like to find out the problem but I'm incredibly happy this works as I have very little time to mess with it.
Sooner or later you'll get into troubles again.
Intel Core i7 2600k has beed designed to work with 32GB DDR3-1066 or 16GB DDR3-1333.
The (stock) Max Memory Bandwidth of this processor is 21 GB/s.
In other words, 16GB DDR3-1333 in dual channel.
However, in the "real world" it works just fine with 16GB DDR3-1600 in dual channel.
But that 25.6GB max bandwidth is all this processor is able to do.
To conclude: above DDR3-1600 the performaces boost is close to ZERO.

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I'm planning for my new rig with the MSI X79A-GD65 (8).
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I've read on this and other forums that sometimes the cpu socket pins can be bent and that can cause memory problems, I took apart the pc again and looked at the pins, but none of them were missing nor were any bent.
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I'd recommend this beautiful pair: G-Skill Ares 2x8GB 1600Mhz F3-1600C9D-16GAR
Series Ares Memory Type DDR3 Capacity 16GB (8GBx2) Multi-Channel Kit Dual Channel Kit Tested Speed 1600MHz Tested Latency 9-9-9-24-2N Tested Voltage 1.50v Registered/Unbuffered Error Checking Non-ECC SPD Speed 1600MHz SPD Voltage 1.50v MSI Mainboards do well with Corsair memory modules.
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This topic has been moved to Older MSI motherboards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=258633.0

Quote from: ruta.andrea on 08-July-15, 13:19:01The other components are:
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