ASRock X299 OC Formula by Nick Shih Pictured

[btarunr]

Professional overclocker Nick Shih has led ASRock design teams through some of the most well laid-out motherboards for enthusiasts. His latest creation is the ASRock X299 OC Formula. This board gets down to the brass-tacks of overclocking-grade motherboards with a simple layout that's stripped of everything unnecessary. It draws power from a 24-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, a 6-pin PCIe, and 4-pin ATX. The CPU is powered by a 14-phase VRM, and wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, and five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots. A PCIe 3.0 x4 makes for the rest of the expansion. Overclocking features include ultra fine-grained voltage control using onboard controls, and an OC Formula kit. Storage connectivity includes two 32 Gb/s M.2-22110, and eight SATA 6 Gb/s. 802.11ac WLAN, and gigabit Ethernet, besides ASRock's top of the line onboard audio make for the rest of it.



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[springs113]

I love this look that Asrock is going with. I would love to see an equivalent on the AMD side.

 

[warrior420]

I love this look that Asrock is going with. I would love to see an equivalent on the AMD side.

I was just thinking the same thing!

 

[dj-electric]

I kinda miss the yellow Lamborghini theme.
These are absolutely stunning and masterfully crafted.

 

[fusionblu]

A shame about the corrosion to the PCI-E slots for the Asrock in the photo.
Initially thought it was the lighting but the second slot from the bottom shows it clearly (first half for the front piece, from left to right, is affected).

I guess it was moisture or humidity from in between shipment, etc.

 

[Grings]

I like the grey stripe with nick shih's name in it, it would go nicely with the one Zotac switched their yellow stripe across their gpu backplates to this gen

I briefly considered a yellow theme when i got an Antec HCP psu with a giant yellow antec logo on the side (zotac Amp/Extreme gpu, Z170 OC, yellow TridentZ's) I had to send the PSU back for a refund so didnt bother in the end, the TridentZ also didnt come at any of the better speeds in yellow anyway, despite matching 'the best memory oc board'
Anyway theres the trouble with Yellow themed parts, it would look good if you get everything yellow, but 1 or 2 bits yellow, others red, blue etc and its going to look awful

 

[Caring1]

A shame about the corrosion to the PCI-E slots for the Asrock in the photo.
Initially thought it was the lighting but the second slot from the bottom shows it clearly (first half for the front piece, from left to right, is affected).

I guess it was moisture or humidity from in between shipment, etc.

It's the lighting, all the pics from the expo have a blue tint to them.