Layout

At a first glance the ASRock OC Formula leaves a very good impression with its harmonic design. The manufacturer decided to go for a combination of black, yellow and gold, which suites nicely and in the end you get an aesthetic although aggressive looking product. The layout itself is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers. The fact that there are SATA connectors which have been angled by 90 degrees allow for an easy installation of oversized graphics cards. It's quite striking to see how similar the new X99 OC Formula is compared to the Z97 OC Formula. Apparently ASRock seems to have found a working formula, which they don't need to change by too much regarding design.



The ASRock OC Formula comes with a digital 12 phase power design. Like we've already explained on the features page ASRock is making use of an extensive solution. There are for instance Dual N-channel MOSFETs as well as 12K Platinum caps on this motherboard. The 12K Platinum caps are made by Nichicon and therefore extremely high-end. Overall it becomes clear, that one of this boards most important features is the power design.



Totally you'll find eight DIMM-slots on the ASRock X99 OC Formula. Officially supported are memory clock speeds of up to DDR4-3400MHz. Should you choose to equip all slots with 8 GB modules, you can have a maximum of 64 GB memory on this motherboard. There is also enough space around the CPU socket, to install large CPU coolers.

On the OC Formula PCH as well as current converters got separate cooling blocks. In case of the southbridge there is a single block made from aluminium, which provides adequate cooling. A closer look at the current converters shows that there are two individual blocks connected to one another by a heatpipe. We're happy to see that ASRock didn't equip this board with an additional fan. Other than that the weight of this board is astonishingly high, which gives a solid hint on the build quality of the cooling blocks.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 3 - Features	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 4 - Layout	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 19 - Tomb Raider
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 21 - Thief
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 22 - Right Mark Audio Analyzer
Page 9 - 3DMark	Page 23 - BCLK Overclocking
Page 10 - 3DMark 11	Page 24 - Power Consumption
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 25 - Performance Rating
Page 12 - PC Mark 8	Page 26 - Price Comparison
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1	Page 27 - Conclusion
Page 14 - SiSoft Sandra 2