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ASRock's Z87 OC Formula is shipped in black and silver packaging that features an image showing resemblances between the motherboard and a Lamborghini sports car.
Two usage manuals, an ASRock Home Cloud guide, a driver disk, and an ASRock OC Formula sticker form the supplied documentation.
ASRock groups the physical accessories into a high-quality draw-string bag that features OC Formula branding.
A solid bundle is supplied with the OC Formula. Ten OC stands are a unique addition that we saw on ASRock's Z77 version of the motherboard. They allow an overclocker to stand the board on a flat surface, rather than rely on a test bench on the packaging.
Gelid's GC-Extreme thermal compound is another worthwhile addition to the bundle.
A 5.25″ bay adapter can be used to provide another two USB 3.0 ports to the front of a chassis. A 2.5″ drive can also be installed in the bay.
Alternatively, the internal USB 3.0 connection can be used to provide an extra two ports via a PCI slot adapter.
The bundle consists of:
- 10x latching SATA cables.
- 2 molex to SAT power adapters.
- 1x flexible SLI bridge.
- 1x tube of Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme thermal paste.
- 10x OC stands.
- 1 x Front USB 3.0 Panel with 2.5″ HDD/SSD Rack
- 4 x HDD Screws (for use with USB 3.0 Panel)
- 6 x Chassis Screws (for use with USB 3.0 Panel)
- 1 x Rear USB 3.0 Bracket
- 1x IO shield.
wow that is awesome, looks stunning too!
This board looks great – good price point too, which I always like with ASROCK. plenty of detail luke, thanks for review
I just ordered one, hard to find here though, they need to work on their distribution
They are always well priced, they dont seem any worse than MSI, GB or ASUS either in my own tests, but it all depends on what board you get I guess.
Not the Formula I am looking forward to but I might go with this after trying out Asrock’s Fatal1ty Z77 and loving it. Not to mention that 9.5 rating.
That fan though >.<
It's forcing me to wait for the other Formula (VI) before I can decide.
Thanks for the review ^^
Got the ac version of this from Overclockers abour four weeks ago. Just waiting on my custom cable extensions to arrive from Pexon to get my build started. If it is half as good as my X79Extreme11 in my main rig it will be epic
Hi Luke,… was wondering. Is the PLX8605 embedded on the Z87 OC Formula AC driven from the CPU? or is it driven from the extra PCIe lanes provided by the Z87 Chipset? (I’m guessing from the lane configurations that it is the Z87? which would mean you could operate 2-way SLI without any latency?……) Thanks for any help you can provide.