OCC has published a review on the ASRock Z77 OC Formula

The extreme overclocker is getting a lot of traction from motherboard manufacturers over the past few years. There is a slew of boutique boards designed to deliver the highest stable clock speeds, so that the brand sits atop the HWBot rankings as the one used to deliver the top clock speed of the week, be it memory or CPU. Truth be told a lot of that has to do with the skill of the overclocker at maximizing each part of the hardware package. The key though, is a good, solid base. ASRock has been making inroads in the enthusiast category with a huge selection of solid performing, feature rich motherboards over the past couple years. So much so that ranks of users are jumping ship to pick up a solid motherboard at a lower price point. Having just finished looking at the Z77 Extreme 4 from ASRock, I was pleasantly surprised with how well it performed and how easily it got my chip to its maximum overclock for a bargain basement $134.

Now when you look at the ASRock Z77 OC Formula you can tell it is not a bargain basement motherboard, with its target market being the extreme overclocker. As such it is going to carry a price premium over the standard motherboards and even the Extreme series boards in ASRock's product stack at $229. Surprisingly with its Extreme overclocking feature set the price point is not something that would be out of line as you get a tremendous upside in capabilities for the money you spend. First off you get hands-on tuning from one of the top overclockers in the world, ASRock's in-house guru Nick Shih, and you get a unique bundle of accessories and software tools to allow you to get the most from the installed hardware. The board comes with a new Digital 12+4 power design, eight layer PCB with four 2oz copper layers, a two way active cooling solution, and just so much more. After seeing what the Extreme 4 had to bring to the table it is going to prove to interesting to see what ASRock has for the upper tier user.

  ASRock Z77 OC Formula Review