My Experience with Oloy RAM

[Durvelle27]

I dont have a daily ryzen rig. The test bench for reviews was at 3200 though... base spec for the platform.

Ahhh no Ryzen love

Well, yes, at $50 it's obviously a good deal. I was just saying, don't expect much in the way of tech support. You know, like sometimes you need to ask about compatibility with a new board/chipset and stuff like that.
And in my experience, if a stick of RAM works out of the box, they tend to last forever. I think I only had one stick go sour in almost 20 years of building my own rigs.

Ehh I'd never go to the manufacture for tech support as they never know what they are actually talking about. Better off asking forums and just getting a refund. Newegg has a good return policy.

Always... but many TPU memebers claim they are enthusiasts? Cost typically never outweighs the percent gained in performance anyway.

Very true

I bought Oloy ram in October as it was dirt cheap and paired it with an MSI B450M Pro mobo, but it caused boot problems, so I had to change it.
It was definitely worth a try and I believe there's another thread where I posted about this.

I saw that thread. It almost made me want to avoid trying it. Could have been a bad batch though.

 

[bug]

Ehh I'd never go to the manufacture for tech support as they never know what they are actually talking about. Better off asking forums and just getting a refund. Newegg has a good return policy.

That depends. I had some issues with some RAM and Abit (yeah, I know) apologized they couldn't source the exact same kit to test, but they tested with something similar. I had some questions about a MSI board and I got a pre-baked response with a useless quote from the manual.

 

[Durvelle27]

This is the best i can get without crashes

3733MHz 18-19-19-19-38

 

[newtekie1]

A few percent is a few percent not noticeable

FTFY

 

[Durvelle27]

So it seems the RAM likes 3733MHz over 3600

It can do 3733MHz 18-19-19-19 but 3600MHx it won't boot unless at 18-20-20-20

 

[Durvelle27]

I also just came across this article. I find it nice that Tomshardware also decided to post about the Oloy line of RAM

Should You Buy OLOy RAM?

OLOy-branded RAM is some of the cheapest memory on the market, but is this largely heard-of brandreliable and performant enough to buy?

www.tomshardware.com

 

[EarthDog]

I find it nice, lol...!

Yes, they reviewed some Oloy RAM.

 

[Durvelle27]

I finally got my 32GB took about 2 weeks. But so far it seems to be working well. Haven't had to much time to play around with them yet though.

 

[hat]

I didn't do any fancy testing or tweaking, but I used a 16GB OLOy kit in a build recently with no issues with a 3200g...

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

With rev E you should be able to drive down the CAS latency by just slapping on more voltage, wouldn't be surprised to see 15-16 at 3733 at under 1.45v.

Rev E won't run low RCD(L), RCD(S) should be around half to half+2 of RCD(L). RP should be able to go down to CAS or CAS+1. Main problem with rev E is the very slow RFC, around 550-600 is typically minimum.

Tertiaries are worth fiddling with if you want the last drops of performance out of the sticks, how much you gain seems to vary a lot by motherboard, since there is quite a lot of variance between autos board to board.

 

[Durvelle27]

With rev E you should be able to drive down the CAS latency by just slapping on more voltage, wouldn't be surprised to see 15-16 at 3733 at under 1.45v.

Rev E won't run low RCD(L), RCD(S) should be around half to half+2 of RCD(L). RP should be able to go down to CAS or CAS+1. Main problem with rev E is the very slow RFC, around 550-600 is typically minimum.

Tertiaries are worth fiddling with if you want the last drops of performance out of the sticks, how much you gain seems to vary a lot by motherboard, since there is quite a lot of variance between autos board to board.

I'm still tinkering with them but even with the Ryzen DRAM calculator I'm having a hard time dialing in timings.

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

With the timing calculator you will still need to rely on some degree of trial and error. I would suggest not immediately changing any of the tertiary or termination settings.

 

[Durvelle27]

With the timing calculator you will still need to rely on some degree of trial and error. I would suggest not immediately changing any of the tertiary or termination settings.

When i get home I'll try again. Currently at work so no access to PC

 

[Durvelle27]

So far with my 32GB set

Anything at 3733MHz tighter than 18-19-19-19-38 fails to boot and this set doesn't respond well to volt increase. Anything above 1.35 and fail to boot

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

If DRAM voltage makes it unstable I would guess that it's a termination problem, either one of the secondary memory voltages or the termination resistances.

 

[Durvelle27]

If DRAM voltage makes it unstable I would guess that it's a termination problem, either one of the secondary memory voltages or the termination resistances.

Also from searching around, I'm thinking my new set of RAM is Micron-A die

Buy I'll post a Thaipon Image once is get home

It's very possible but all the extra voltages kind of threw me as my BIOs layout is weird and doesn't list alot of that




Edit: Heres the screenie