ASRock isn't a name many of us associate with performance motherboards but for the past several years the company has been working hard to change that image. The quest started when the company attacked the gaming market with the help of a top tier gamer named Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. The brand has been extremely popular with gamers and helped pave the way to address the next performance segment, Overclocking. Similar to the Fatal1ty line of products ASRock pulled in the proven overclocker Nick Shih to help design and promote these motherboards, they even bear is signature.

In this review we will be looking at the new ASRock Z87 OC Formula motherboard. As the name suggests this is a Z87 enabled motherboard designed for overclocking, extreme overclocking that is. Of course as with many products in this segment the motherboard will perform equally well in a mainstream or gaming computer but has been specially designed to handle extreme temperatures, voltage and abuse.