Introduction

I've been spending a lot of time with ASRock products lately, a huge myriad of designs and devices that have left the PC nerd in me nearly exhausted in delight. I was literally dreaming of overclocked CPUs and DDR4 benchmarks when my Surface dinged in my ear with another email from ASRock letting me know that yet another product was ready for me to play with, literally answering my dreams... for what ASRock had ready was none other than the X99 OC FORMULA/3.1 motherboard.

The ASRock X99 OC FORMULA/3.1 motherboard is ASRock's answer to the extreme overclocker's needs, packed with overclocking goodies from head to toe. Wrapped in the honorary gold and black that were fitted to generations past, the X99 OC FORMULA/3.1 also includes ultra-fast USB 3.1 technology, both fitted directly to the board itself and in the form of an add-in board in case there aren't enough ports for your high-speed devices.

ASRock's OC FORMULA name carries a great legacy with it. Take a look at any top-end benchmarking results and you'll find an OC FORMULA product of some sort there. OC FORMULA describes the thousands of hours of research and development (and countless liters of LN2) put into providing a truly flexible and customizable product with no limits to any aspect of its design. As a memory overclocker, boards like this keep me up at night, so join me in a bleary-eyed look at ASRock's most current incarnation of greatness.

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