Today we can show you couple of first pictures of the ASRock X99 OC Formula motherboard, designed for professional overclocking by none other than Nick Shih. This motherboard is designed to push your CPU and your memory to the limit, and it supports multi-GPU configurations.

The new ASRock X99 OC Formula features a 12-phase CPU VRM and a 4-phase VRM for the memory, which draw power from an ATX 24-pin connector, an EPS 8-pin connector, an ATX 4-pin connector and a 4-pin Molex, which should ensure the maximum stability in all scenarios.

The LGA2011-3 socket is wired to eight DDR4 DIMM slots, which can fit up to 64GB in quad-channel mode. Furthermore, the motherboard features four PCI-Express x16 slots (x16/x8/x16/x8), an mPCIe 2.0 x1 and a PCI-Express 2.0 x1. As far as storage is concerned, it features two M.2 slots (one of them is actually an “Ultra M.2” slot), ten SATA 6Gbps ports, ten USB 3.0 ports and much more. It also features 7.1-channel HD audio with audio grade capacitors and ground-layer isolation and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

For those of you who might want this motherboard to do some serious overclocking, we can tell you this board definitely looks good as the CPU VRM should be able to deliver up to 1300W of power. Also, the UEFI BIOS is very rich features wise, and there is a dual-BIOS switch to change it on the fly. Other than that, there are a few voltage measurement points, debug LED display, Power, Reset and on-board tuning buttons, six fan headers, boot-to-BIOS switch and much more.

Intel's Haswell-E HEDT platform is just around the corner, and we will not have to wait much longer to know everything about this motherboard.






Source: Techpowerup.com