MSI Z77-G45 GAMING DRAM OC PROBLEM.

TYPE or PASTE your text here... Hi guys,
I just bought this mother board running a i5 3570k and G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133. After i start all running the first thing I've done was setting the rams to stock speeds, latency and volts which is speed 2133, timing 9-11-9-28 and voltage 1.65V...Whats happens after i plug this is just weird, my pc starts a rebooting loop that goes on forever. This is my first MSI motherboard I'm currently reading a learning my way around.
Please guys help to solve this problem.
TY

First, that ram isn't the best choice for this system. It's voltage rating of 1.65 and ram timings are out of spec and that leads to instabilities / incompatibilities.
Let see if we can get this to work for you anyhow.
1st, is the ram installed in DIMMS 2 and 4 per the manual? (The 2nd from the cpu and last from the cpu)
2nd: Have you tried manually setting the timings to 11-11-11-30 Command Rate 2t, Speed: 2133, DramV: 1.55  If not test and see if that works.
What are your other settings? Have you tried running Intel Burn Test on maximum at stock settings to make sure it was stable there?

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