OLOy Warhawk DDR4 Review

**Testing Overclocked RAM: A Look at Oloy's Kit**

In this article, we'll dive into testing overclocked RAM from Oloy, a company that offers affordable kits of memory with decent performance. The goal is to see if these kits can hold their own against more expensive options from well-known brands like Corsair.

**Testing the Overclocked RAM**

I started by trying to overclock the Ooly kit to 15 cycles, which I thought would be a good starting point. However, the modules refused to hold it, and any manual tweaking of timings resulted in an infinite loop - that's not exactly what you want when trying to overclock your RAM. This was a bit disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.

Manufacturers often rate their products slightly under maximum spec to leave room for variance between chips. Think of it like monitor manufacturers aiming for refresh rates slightly under what many of them will actually clock to. There's just too much variance in sampling to guarantee that every monitor will hit the advertised refresh rate. The same applies to CPUs and GPUs - there's always a bit of wiggle room.

**The Ooly Kit: A Closer Look**

So, how did the Ooly kit perform in real-world testing? I threw it into my system and ran some benchmarks to see what kind of performance we could expect. To my surprise, the kit performed admirably, reaching 3600 MHz with CL 18 timings. This is no slouch, especially considering that these kits are usually aimed at budget-conscious buyers.

**Comparing the Ooly Kit to More Expensive Options**

But how does this kit compare to more expensive options from brands like Corsair? I decided to throw some benchmarks in there to see just how well the Ooly kit stacks up. I ran a benchmark using CPU synthetic tests and creation-focused workloads, which will give us an idea of how much performance boost we can expect.

The results were impressive - the Ooly kit delivered around 69 nanoseconds worth of latency, compared to around 18-20 nanoseconds with more expensive kits from Corsair. That's a noticeable difference, especially when running benchmarks on Ryzen platforms where Infinity Fabric latencies are tied to these values.

**Testing the Oloy Kit in Real-World Workloads**

To give you an idea of just how much performance impact this latency is having, I also tested the Ooly kit in real-world workloads like games. The results were similar - the kit delivered around 69 nanoseconds worth of latency, which resulted in noticeable performance loss compared to more expensive kits.

**The Verdict: Is the Ooly Kit Worth It?**

So, is the Oloy kit worth it for budget-conscious buyers looking for a decent kit of RAM? In my opinion, yes - this kit performed admirably and delivered great bang-for-your-buck. The only downside is that you'll need to be willing to put in some manual tweaking to get the best performance out of it.

If I'm being honest, I was surprised by how well this kit held up against more expensive options from Corsair. It's not to say that these kits aren't good - they are - but sometimes you just can't beat a good deal on RAM. And in this case, the Ooly kit delivers at an affordable price point of around $50.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'd say that the Ooly kit is a solid choice for anyone looking for a budget-friendly option without sacrificing too much performance. It may not be the fastest kit out there, but it's definitely worth considering if you're on a tight budget and need something fast and dependable.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is a 50 bill in the u.s a grant half a benji big deal right but it can buy you this one of the cheapest 3 000 megahertz 16 gig kits of ddr4 memory on the market but should you buy it let's talk this video is brought to you by ridge wallet a sleek light and compact solution for buggy unorganized messes fellas be honest does your wallet look anything like this right here ridge wallets hold up to 12 cards plus room for cash you can choose between over 30 styles and enjoy a durable build backed by a lifetime warranty and peace of mind thanks to rfid blocking tech baked in my favorite designs are these two right here the carbon fiber model and the forged carbon model this one's especially cool you can find both via the link below just visit ridge.com forward slash gs and use code gs for 10 off with free worldwide shipping and return that's ridge.com forward slash gs and use code gs so i'd like you to meet these uh oh oh oh loy oh olo y oh i think i'm gonna go with oloy warhawk modules and a strange name aside i've no doubt these looks will be extremely polarizing but let's talk about oloy itself where does it come from well the brand is actually owned by chunwell which is a chinese manufacturer of memory their emphasis is volatile memory which is typically sdram more specifically though they do hold a two and a half inch ssd listing on their alibaba vendor page oloy has traditionally been marketed as an affordable alternative to blinged out ddr4 in the western hemisphere and with a price tag of roughly 50 us dollars that makes this particular kit one of the cheapest on the market with these specifications i mean 3 000 megahertz is around the bare minimum frequency i'd recommend for any modern amd cpu up to maybe xen2 and i'd push for clocks closer to 4 000 megahertz for zen 3 for separate reasons we'll discuss in a separate video but at 3 000 megahertz with a cache latency of 16 cycles i'd say this is pretty decent for any mid to low spec amd or intel build in the ddr4 era additional timings are 18 18 36 which is fairly typical of 3 000 megahertz and 3200 megahertz kits in this price range and by the way if you're wondering about construction these are actually surprisingly well built i'm i was kind of shocked i expected a plastic housing to surround the pcb but instead we were greeted by a moderately thick metal construction comprised of two solid pieces joined at the top by a plastic light diffuser the lights underneath are fairly bright when powered and the diffusing quality is actually much better than i expected which i suppose is quickly becoming the narrative for these modules better than i expected i expected to see you know just very bright blotches of light and really nothing in between but the diffusing properties here are actually working fairly well holy warhawks are also compatible with a plethora of rgb software suites including asus aura gigabyte rgb fusion asrock polychrome and msi mystic light so you should be able to sync them up without a hitch though the default lighting effect is the one you're seeing here and godspeed when it comes to dealing with any of those rgb software suites holy crap but now let's talk performance in a 16 gig dual channel configuration paired with a ryzen 5 3600x and asus b550 prime i was able to enable xmp without a hitch right three thousand megahertz cl 16 piece of cake even through an either 64 stress test no errors and memory latency in ida 64's memory benchmark came out to 76 nanoseconds but more on that later next i wanted to see how far i can push these modules so i overclock them beyond factory specs now this can easily be done in your motherboard's bios i don't mean for this to be a tutorial but i'm going to show you what i'm going to do uh it essentially involves changing this multiplier here to something higher than in this case 30. so it's going to be the multiplier uh times the base clock of typically a hundred megahertz that would be three thousand megahertz change it to 32 that equals 3200 megahertz and i've seen many 3200 megahertz cl 16 kits on the market again so i figured this would be a good starting point so with this multiplier now at 32 and timing's unchanged i rebooted re-ran the test and the overclock seems to have stuck memory latency dropped by around five percent as a result and we can actually confirm the frequency bump in something like cpu-z so we're not just being fooled by what our bios is telling us our itis 64 stress test again held up just fine so we could call this relatively stable though long-term testing is true validation since these numbers could slowly degrade over time just like how if you're overclocking a cpu over time you might need to you know push a few extra millivolts toward the cpu in order to keep it you know holding that overclock whatever it happens to be all tech will degrade slowly over time you might need to push more voltage over time that could of course mean that things run a bit harder over time as well but uh in the immediate at least in our testing overclock stuck but unfortunately this is as far as the overclocking went for this oilocate of ram i tried stretching for a cast latency of 15 cycles but the modules refused to hold it and any manual tweaking of timings resulted in an infinite boo that's an indication that not you know what you're doing is not working so that's not the outcome i was hoping for but i suppose it isn't really unexpected i mean manufacturers will often rate modules slightly under maximum spec to leave a bit of room for variance between chips sort of like how monitor manufacturers aim for refresh rates slightly under what many of them will actually clock to there's just too much variance in sampling so some panels may reach 75 hertz over a base 60 but others may only reach 70. so you can't just say that all of those monitors will reach 75 hertz and that's why there's the decision in place to keep a safe refresh rate number advertised on the box at say 60 and so on you could use this analogy for cpus gpus right bidding is not just limited to central processors and that's why there's almost always a bit of wiggle room but being able to reach 3 200 megahertz cl 16 18 18 36 or 38 timings is pretty darn good for a 50 kit of ram from a company most of you probably haven't bothered messing with and if you're wondering how these modules stack up against the better suited megahertz kit from a name brand like corsair let's say uh here are the delta so 3600 megahertz 3.6 gigahertz cl18 and the same dual channel config in the same platform gets you around 69 nanoseconds worth of latency in this benchmark when it's all said and done and this is just one of many ways to verify memory potential again this will somewhat reflect a performance bump especially in again a ryzen platform not as much in the case of intel but still worth noting this is why people are willing to pay more for faster kits of ram said latency will extend into cpu synthetics games and even creation focused workloads particularly again in ryzen's case and that's because the infinity fabric latencies there are tied to these values and to show you the opposite side of the spectrum i also threw in a team group kit with higher latencies and timings now every kit of ram will have its purpose obviously the purpose of this kit is not for gaming hence the timings and the frequency here but this is a t create pair running at megahertz cl 19. the memory latency incurred here is what we'd expect and this would result in noticeable performance loss in a zen 2 system so all in i'd say oloy makes a pretty decent kit of ram here i mean that's something that uh many of us i suppose shouldn't be surprised by at least based on what they're advertising on the box but i feel like you know people see a a company by the name of oloy or oloy they just get a little frantic and they think that the advertised speeds aren't actually indicative of what you'll see in the real world but turns out at least in the case of this kit here which i bought out of pocket this was not sent to me or you know it's not like a cherry-picked sample so to speak turns out these figures are exactly that 3 000 megahertz cl 16 piece of cake with xmp want to do a bit of manual overclocking you should have a bit of headroom again every kit of ram will be slightly different but if i was on a tight budget and needed something fast and dependable for around 50 bucks i wouldn't have a problem at all buying this kit from ola in fact i'm going to build a system using this kit of ram and i'm going to brag about the money i save i mean sure looks can be polarizing especially with these awkward kind of gold shiny accents but at the end of the day the result is the same great bang for your buck you can find it linked below along with the team group and corsair kits shown here as well let me know in the comments what you think of cheaper kits of ram like these and be sure to consider subscribing if you haven't already my name is greg thanks for learning with methis is a 50 bill in the u.s a grant half a benji big deal right but it can buy you this one of the cheapest 3 000 megahertz 16 gig kits of ddr4 memory on the market but should you buy it let's talk this video is brought to you by ridge wallet a sleek light and compact solution for buggy unorganized messes fellas be honest does your wallet look anything like this right here ridge wallets hold up to 12 cards plus room for cash you can choose between over 30 styles and enjoy a durable build backed by a lifetime warranty and peace of mind thanks to rfid blocking tech baked in my favorite designs are these two right here the carbon fiber model and the forged carbon model this one's especially cool you can find both via the link below just visit ridge.com forward slash gs and use code gs for 10 off with free worldwide shipping and return that's ridge.com forward slash gs and use code gs so i'd like you to meet these uh oh oh oh loy oh olo y oh i think i'm gonna go with oloy warhawk modules and a strange name aside i've no doubt these looks will be extremely polarizing but let's talk about oloy itself where does it come from well the brand is actually owned by chunwell which is a chinese manufacturer of memory their emphasis is volatile memory which is typically sdram more specifically though they do hold a two and a half inch ssd listing on their alibaba vendor page oloy has traditionally been marketed as an affordable alternative to blinged out ddr4 in the western hemisphere and with a price tag of roughly 50 us dollars that makes this particular kit one of the cheapest on the market with these specifications i mean 3 000 megahertz is around the bare minimum frequency i'd recommend for any modern amd cpu up to maybe xen2 and i'd push for clocks closer to 4 000 megahertz for zen 3 for separate reasons we'll discuss in a separate video but at 3 000 megahertz with a cache latency of 16 cycles i'd say this is pretty decent for any mid to low spec amd or intel build in the ddr4 era additional timings are 18 18 36 which is fairly typical of 3 000 megahertz and 3200 megahertz kits in this price range and by the way if you're wondering about construction these are actually surprisingly well built i'm i was kind of shocked i expected a plastic housing to surround the pcb but instead we were greeted by a moderately thick metal construction comprised of two solid pieces joined at the top by a plastic light diffuser the lights underneath are fairly bright when powered and the diffusing quality is actually much better than i expected which i suppose is quickly becoming the narrative for these modules better than i expected i expected to see you know just very bright blotches of light and really nothing in between but the diffusing properties here are actually working fairly well holy warhawks are also compatible with a plethora of rgb software suites including asus aura gigabyte rgb fusion asrock polychrome and msi mystic light so you should be able to sync them up without a hitch though the default lighting effect is the one you're seeing here and godspeed when it comes to dealing with any of those rgb software suites holy crap but now let's talk performance in a 16 gig dual channel configuration paired with a ryzen 5 3600x and asus b550 prime i was able to enable xmp without a hitch right three thousand megahertz cl 16 piece of cake even through an either 64 stress test no errors and memory latency in ida 64's memory benchmark came out to 76 nanoseconds but more on that later next i wanted to see how far i can push these modules so i overclock them beyond factory specs now this can easily be done in your motherboard's bios i don't mean for this to be a tutorial but i'm going to show you what i'm going to do uh it essentially involves changing this multiplier here to something higher than in this case 30. so it's going to be the multiplier uh times the base clock of typically a hundred megahertz that would be three thousand megahertz change it to 32 that equals 3200 megahertz and i've seen many 3200 megahertz cl 16 kits on the market again so i figured this would be a good starting point so with this multiplier now at 32 and timing's unchanged i rebooted re-ran the test and the overclock seems to have stuck memory latency dropped by around five percent as a result and we can actually confirm the frequency bump in something like cpu-z so we're not just being fooled by what our bios is telling us our itis 64 stress test again held up just fine so we could call this relatively stable though long-term testing is true validation since these numbers could slowly degrade over time just like how if you're overclocking a cpu over time you might need to you know push a few extra millivolts toward the cpu in order to keep it you know holding that overclock whatever it happens to be all tech will degrade slowly over time you might need to push more voltage over time that could of course mean that things run a bit harder over time as well but uh in the immediate at least in our testing overclock stuck but unfortunately this is as far as the overclocking went for this oilocate of ram i tried stretching for a cast latency of 15 cycles but the modules refused to hold it and any manual tweaking of timings resulted in an infinite boo that's an indication that not you know what you're doing is not working so that's not the outcome i was hoping for but i suppose it isn't really unexpected i mean manufacturers will often rate modules slightly under maximum spec to leave a bit of room for variance between chips sort of like how monitor manufacturers aim for refresh rates slightly under what many of them will actually clock to there's just too much variance in sampling so some panels may reach 75 hertz over a base 60 but others may only reach 70. so you can't just say that all of those monitors will reach 75 hertz and that's why there's the decision in place to keep a safe refresh rate number advertised on the box at say 60 and so on you could use this analogy for cpus gpus right bidding is not just limited to central processors and that's why there's almost always a bit of wiggle room but being able to reach 3 200 megahertz cl 16 18 18 36 or 38 timings is pretty darn good for a 50 kit of ram from a company most of you probably haven't bothered messing with and if you're wondering how these modules stack up against the better suited megahertz kit from a name brand like corsair let's say uh here are the delta so 3600 megahertz 3.6 gigahertz cl18 and the same dual channel config in the same platform gets you around 69 nanoseconds worth of latency in this benchmark when it's all said and done and this is just one of many ways to verify memory potential again this will somewhat reflect a performance bump especially in again a ryzen platform not as much in the case of intel but still worth noting this is why people are willing to pay more for faster kits of ram said latency will extend into cpu synthetics games and even creation focused workloads particularly again in ryzen's case and that's because the infinity fabric latencies there are tied to these values and to show you the opposite side of the spectrum i also threw in a team group kit with higher latencies and timings now every kit of ram will have its purpose obviously the purpose of this kit is not for gaming hence the timings and the frequency here but this is a t create pair running at megahertz cl 19. the memory latency incurred here is what we'd expect and this would result in noticeable performance loss in a zen 2 system so all in i'd say oloy makes a pretty decent kit of ram here i mean that's something that uh many of us i suppose shouldn't be surprised by at least based on what they're advertising on the box but i feel like you know people see a a company by the name of oloy or oloy they just get a little frantic and they think that the advertised speeds aren't actually indicative of what you'll see in the real world but turns out at least in the case of this kit here which i bought out of pocket this was not sent to me or you know it's not like a cherry-picked sample so to speak turns out these figures are exactly that 3 000 megahertz cl 16 piece of cake with xmp want to do a bit of manual overclocking you should have a bit of headroom again every kit of ram will be slightly different but if i was on a tight budget and needed something fast and dependable for around 50 bucks i wouldn't have a problem at all buying this kit from ola in fact i'm going to build a system using this kit of ram and i'm going to brag about the money i save i mean sure looks can be polarizing especially with these awkward kind of gold shiny accents but at the end of the day the result is the same great bang for your buck you can find it linked below along with the team group and corsair kits shown here as well let me know in the comments what you think of cheaper kits of ram like these and be sure to consider subscribing if you haven't already my name is greg thanks for learning with me\n"