Installation
As part of our Project Core Arancio, we decided to paint the heatsinks white to match our theme colors. We had no problems installing our XSPC RayStorm Pro waterblock on to the motherboard. There were still plenty of space around the processor socket and memory slots
We also mounted the Thermaltake Pacific RL240 D5 Hard Tube water cooling kit on a Core P3 chassis … it was a dream to install. The ASRock motherboard fitted in nicely.
BIOS Overview
The BIOS on the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 Motherboard is pretty easy to use. The OC Tweaker tab and has tons of options to manually tweak and overclock both your CPU and memory. For all you OC novices, there is an option for easy Optimized CPU OC settings which is basically a one-click option to overclock your CPU. The available options to overclock is Turbo 3.8GHZ or Turbo 4.0GHz. … Turbo 4.2GHz is greyed out.
With some OC knowledge, you can manually set the multiplier, adjust the BCLK frequency as well has increase your voltages.
The DRAM configuration page include a host of options for adjusting your DRAM frequencies, voltages and memory timings. True overclockers will love this page … for the rest of us, we’ll stick to default 😉
