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ASRock ships the X99 OC Formula in a grey and black box that is typical for the series. The front side features the X99 OC Formula product name in stylish writing, while the rear outlines the board's key features with greater depth.
Supplied documentation consists of the usual affair of manuals and guides. ASRock also supplies a drivers CD and OC Formula-branded case badge.
Cables and accessories supplied with the X99 OC Formula are situated inside a pull-string cloth bag. While this is not much use directly from the factory, it is helpful to users who open up a set of cables and then put them back in storage – no longer do they spill about the empty motherboard box.
Six SATA leads, three SLI ribbons, the HDD Saver cable, three screws for M.2 and mPCIe devices, and the rear IO shield form the X99 OC Formula's supplied bundle.
ASRock includes three flexible SLI ribbons which are capable of teaming together to support 4-way SLI configurations. This can be done by connecting the three bridges as follows; one to the first and second, another linking the second and fourth, and the last one joining the third and fourth graphics cards' SLI tabs.
While a dedicated 4-way SLI bridge is the cleaner approach, enthusiast overclockers are unlikely to care for the aesthetics of their graphics configurations' cables. That same point makes the ribbons' ugly beige colouring less of an issue.
Hey Luke, what attracts me to this board are the 2 x M.2 slots. Unfortunately you cannot run them in hardware Raid 0, but I believe you can software raid them in Windows. The other thing is do you know if the 5 year warranty is available worldwide? Or just the US/Europe?