ASRock X99 OC Formula Motherboard Review

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.

Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

The physics score in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark takes a noticeable hit from the X99 OC Formula's lower memory speed, compared to the Asus and MSI boards. The same can be said for memory bandwidth numbers, as reported by the Sandra benchmark.

Sandra's CPU Arithmetic test runs independently of intensive memory input and shows similar scores between the Asus and ASRock boards, both of which used the 5960X at 3.5GHz. MSI's slightly better score is attributed to its higher CPU speed due to an XMP-adjusted base clock.

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