Z68A-GD80 Memory Choices

Question

I've got an MSI Z68A-GD80 board and an i7 2600k that I plan on running but I'd also like to run 16GB of RAM and I'm having trouble finding it in a kit. I did find this Corsair Vengeance Blu 16 GB PC3-12800 1600mHz DDR3 240-Pin SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit for Intel and AMD Platforms CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B and was wondering if anyone has used this particular kit or is there another option?

Answer 1

Another update that's not so good. Everything was running fine until yesterday late in the afternoon. I had been messing around with an RC Flight training program for about an hour. Everything was still humming right along so I was scrounging around the web when I got the hated BSOD and it shut down my entire system. I figured okay no problem just power it back up and things would be fine. It didn't work that way, now it was trying to start but like many it just kept shutting down and coming back on, all it would do is just loop. Having limited use of my hands I had to wait until I could get someone to help me get into the case. I cleared the CMOS but that didn't work, still looping. I had my aide pull a couple pieces of the Corsair Vengeance out dropping it down to 8GB and tried starting it, well that worked it fired right up and went straight to the desktop. The RAM had dropped back to the default settings so I went back and enabled the XMP profile and with just the two 4GB sticks it started up without any trouble. I then went and added a third stick to see if it would boot and it did but I had stayed away from the dimm slot number 2. As soon as I placed the last stick in and hit the power it went right back to the looping without getting anything at all to show up on my display. So I pulled dimm 2 and dimm 4 out and it booted right up. Then I spent a couple of hours trying each stick in each dimm since I had help to change them. Everytime I put a stick into dimm 2 even by itself it would just go back to the looping. I ended up just using dimm 1 and dimm 3 and it is running now since I'm using it to post this. I have no idea which direction to turn now. I did manage to save the error message that Windows presented me with when I got it running the first time with just dimm 1 and 3 populated.
Here is what it was telling me:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: FFFFF900C6A965E8
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: FFFFF9600016325F
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\071711-12292-01.dmp
C:\Users\Burnard\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-51651-0.sysdata.xml
I'm not sure what it all means and searching for the files wasn't much help. I did notice one thing, when there are just two sticks installed and the XMP enabled the voltage is running at 1.5 compared to the 1.64 it was at when all the dimms were populated and working normally. Now I'm left scratching my head, is the board bad, or my PSU an 850w Corsair unit not getting me enough juice, or my CPU an i7 2600k messed up in some way or bad memory.