***Offical ASRock z97 OC Formula Thread - Tips / Discussion / BIOS / Tools***

[bullant]

Wow nice Splave,be interesting to know if you can do 2800mhz on the z87 with that chip or is the z97 board helping this ,If that is with no waza I'm guess z97 effieincy is awesome

[Splave]

I think its just the imc mate, I will try the same setup in z87 for you tomorrow

[Dumo]

Awesome run Allen

[Alex-Ro]

This round ASRock has decided to create just a normal ATX form factor board, so there will just be the large OCF not an M

I guess we got lucky since the M variant is listed on the site,also i think one of the few ones to support sata express in mATX format:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97M%20OC%20Formula/

[Splave]

This time the m is not for extreme oc.

[websmile]

The M is listed in germany for 130 euros, it has no ln2 or slow mode switches, no debug LED and no power/reset switches as far as I can see, also it has 8 power phases, Z87 had 12 and all the former mentioned features - yes, this is not made for extreme oc

P.S. Good to see my old 17066 ripjawx are still alive, Allen

[nickshih]

The M is listed in germany for 130 euros, it has no ln2 or slow mode switches, no debug LED and no power/reset switches as far as I can see, also it has 8 power phases, Z87 had 12 and all the former mentioned features - yes, this is not made for extreme oc

P.S. Good to see my old 17066 ripjawx are still alive, Allen

i think that one is 2000 6 9 6 kits ..

Thanks for providing the info of OCF-M .... it builded for normal usesr only this time ......not for extreme OC ..

[websmile]

Hi Nick,
you are welcome, the new z97 OCFM is priced much lower for start than Z87 was at launch, I think it is a solid board for the normal user with good features - on the memory, I was referring to the BBSE kit at start post, should be a 10520640 17066c8 RipjawX kit which I sold while ago to quake6 here at xs and which Allen showed a while ago ath some pictures - these are quite rare, normally blue bbse ripjaws have 17000 in spd

[nickshih]

Hi Nock,
you are welcome, the new z97 OCFM is priced much lower for start than Z87 was at launch, I think it is a solid board for the normal user with good features - on the memory, I was referring to the BBSE kit at start post, should be a 10520640 17066c8 RipjawX kit which I sold while ago to quake6 here at xs and which Allen showed a while ago ath some pictures - these are quite rare, normally blue bbse ripjaws have 17000 in spd

Actually price of Z97 OCF is quite lower this time . especially for a coated overclocking mobo.

[websmile]

Unfortunatley this (the big OC Formula) is not listed at europe yet, at least at big price research website geizhals, but as far as I see at USA the board is priced very good

P.S. Sorry for the typo

[psychopath]

I am european.. and I am thinking in buy an ASRock Z97 OC Formula + i5 4690K

Im waiting for ASRock Z97 OC Formula avaliable in my country.. hope for nice price like 200 euros

Someone here alredy buy this board??

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Sam's rejects refreshed on Z97

The sticks were never able to complete 32M at these clocks, just train and run 1M. The board loves vdimm and has no issues training with 2.2+v

LN2@all because with BBSE there is no other way and 2.25v on the memory, full pot but because these ic's run so hot the avg. temp was -115c to -120c and would warm up during load.



quick 4G, but I suck at 4G what else is new lol



pics because everyone loves pics











PSC next, hoping for 2800+

[Don_Dan]

Nice frosty pics!

2.25V on BBSE is

[bullant]

Wow BBSE so strong ,nice loud

Board and cold pics look good too

[Splave]

great job!

Bull I cant run 2800 on z87 tried today and failed to even train, same order of sticks same cpu etc.


websmile, the bbse is running nice 2666 8-11-7-22-88 all tight 1.92v 32m post soon

[bullant]

great job!

Bull I cant run 2800 on z87 tried today and failed to even train, same order of sticks same cpu etc.


websmile, the bbse is running nice 2666 8-11-7-22-88 all tight 1.92v 32m post soon

Thanks for testing mate,it looks like Z97 OCF is awesome

[Splave]

Hope yours arrives eventually man

[bullant]

Hope yours arrives eventually man

Yeah me too! Hopefully courier company find it soon

Thanks

[psychopath]

bios is still very new.. maybe with some news bios.. new highs!


if you only use the PCI-E 1, you win someting in disabled in the switch the PCI-E 2, 3 and 4 ?


and someone can post decente home images of the board?

[ZenEffect]

great job!

Bull I cant run 2800 on z87 tried today and failed to even train, same order of sticks same cpu etc.


websmile, the bbse is running nice 2666 8-11-7-22-88 all tight 1.92v 32m post soon

that is some interesting info

[andressergio]

Great results Splave looking forward to test one Z87 oc formula still my fav sadly i have tri sli and wont boot it :/

I guess will be same on the Z97 oc formula i saw still 8/4/4

But for low volts on CPU and amazing mem clocks ASRock rules !

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Yeah, still no 3-way SLI since Nvidia requires at least an x8 connection for each card in an SLI configuration. 3-way Crossfire X would work, though.

[rivaldokfc]

Hi guys, you were talking about imc. but how to judge whether it is a strong or weak imc? because for 4770k, most of them can go 3200+ on air with mfr..

[Splave]

Depends if you want high frequency or tight timings, some cant do both. 2666 8-11-7 on bbse and 2720 8-12-8 on psc seems to be a good imc for old ic's or run loose and try max mhz on mfr or samsung.







Benching like crazy for 4 hours, hw never let me down.

[andressergio]

Yeah, still no 3-way SLI since Nvidia requires at least an x8 connection for each card in an SLI configuration. 3-way Crossfire X would work, though.

thanks bro such a shame the ASUS eats volts like mad compared to the ASRock grrrrrrrrrrrrr