The first
impression the OC Formula from ASRock leaves, makes us want more.
We like the individual design of this board, which actually isn't that
easy to achieve anymore. Since ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and co finally found
out that people, especially in the western part of this world, prefer
simple and decent color designs, quite a lot of color combinations have
already been chosen.
The OC Formula is a motherboard that really targets extreme
overclockers, but nevertheless ASRock succeeded in crafting a product
that is equally attractive to the guys handling LN2 or
watercooling/aircooling setups. Both worlds will be able to squeeze
maximum out of their systems using this board.
Basically the ASRock OC Formula's Layout has been
very well thought. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as
the power- and reset-buttons. There is also a debug display which is very useful
in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board
itself. Even the placement of the PCI-Express x16 is well chosen. There is a
total of three of these slots between two slots there are always two empty
slots. We think this is a good number of PCI Express x16 slots for a
overclocking/gaming motherboard altough most gamers will never use three
graphics cards in their build. But still it leaves you with plenty of options if
you want to plug in other expansion cards. Overclockers will also like the
voltage readouts but basically this board is more suitable for overclockers than
enthusiast gamers.
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Angled SATA
connectors
- Power/Reset-Button onboard
- Debug display
- Space around the CPU
socket
- Voltage readouts
- Watercooling
- OC Buttons
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