ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer Review

Overclocking

We decided to head straight in to Windows using our favoured settings of 1.30V vcore and 4.3GHz and as per usual we found ourselves at the desktop waiting to see what hideous temperatures awaited once we'd put the CPU under load.

Thankfully, this resulted in a pleasant surprise, with the temperature a good 15°C lower than the Tj Max of 105°C. The vcore, however, wasn't quite enough to survive a torturous run of Terragen 3 so we continued to raise the voltage all the way to 1.34V where things were stable.

The CPU temperature was right on the ragged edge here, but it held 4-5°C below the Tj Max so we decided to proceed with our overclocked benchmarking here.

EFI

We were a tad disappointed with the Fatal1ty X99M Killer's EFI, which is fairly basic compared to many of the competitions' boards. However, what we did like, for the most part, was the layout. The various setting for the RAM or CPU are split into different subsections but you still get a real time view of the target frequencies following your tweaking efforts - something that was often missing from the EVGA X99 Micro.



While there are the usual modern features such as a favourite settings menu, we were initially stumped when it came to saving your settings in a profile. However, this was soon found located in the main overclocking section, rather than the usual Profiles or Save and Exit sections.







Head over the page to see the Performance Analysis, Conclusion and Scores.