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As the title says, I have two of the F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH kits (8GB total) for my MSI P55-GD80 system. The motherboard's BIOS is 1.7 (current as of today). I am not an overclocker and generally just prefer a fast, stable system without a bunch of tweaking. I must also profess my ignorance to some of the latest technologies as this computer I built was the first one I've built since the early Pentium 4 days (RAMBUS!!!), so things such as X.M.P. have eluded me over the years. Anyway, I'm just looking for the optimal settings for my memory and this motherboard because I'm having some stability issues with my new system. I fear that one of my DIMMs are bad (it has failed MemTest86 as well as the Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostics before, but ever since that night I have not been able to recreate the memory errors). First I figure I should be sure I've got everything in the BIOS correct. Here are the basic settings I'm dealing with (I'm not manually adjusting timings and such):
DRAM Timing Mode: Auto
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.): Enabled
Extreme Memory Profile Mode: Auto
Memory Ration: Auto (1333MHz)
QPI Ratio: Auto (4800MHz)
As mentioned before, I wasn't even sure what X.M.P. was when I started. When I left it "Disabled" (the default) my timings were 9-9-9-24, which concerned me since I paid for memory labeled as 7-7-7-21. Later I turned X.M.P. on and set it to "Auto" and of course the timings now read 7-7-7-21. My assumption is that the above settings are correct for someone who wants a nice and stable, not-overclocked system (I'm not insinuating that you can't have a stable OC'd system, BTW), but I wanted some confirmation from this forum first.
As for my fear that I have a bad DIMM. This is because I've had several games crash to desktop, random apps also crash (Firefox, Ventrilo for two examples of apps that just crash and disappear with no error message), and I've had a couple of MEMORY_MANAGEMENT blue screens of death.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on my system. CPU is a Core i7-860. Let me know if I've left out any other pertinent details and thanks in advance.
DRAM Timing Mode: Auto
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.): Enabled
Extreme Memory Profile Mode: Auto
Memory Ration: Auto (1333MHz)
QPI Ratio: Auto (4800MHz)
As mentioned before, I wasn't even sure what X.M.P. was when I started. When I left it "Disabled" (the default) my timings were 9-9-9-24, which concerned me since I paid for memory labeled as 7-7-7-21. Later I turned X.M.P. on and set it to "Auto" and of course the timings now read 7-7-7-21. My assumption is that the above settings are correct for someone who wants a nice and stable, not-overclocked system (I'm not insinuating that you can't have a stable OC'd system, BTW), but I wanted some confirmation from this forum first.
As for my fear that I have a bad DIMM. This is because I've had several games crash to desktop, random apps also crash (Firefox, Ventrilo for two examples of apps that just crash and disappear with no error message), and I've had a couple of MEMORY_MANAGEMENT blue screens of death.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on my system. CPU is a Core i7-860. Let me know if I've left out any other pertinent details and thanks in advance.
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