Watch the ASUS ROG OC Competition Live!
LN2 makes an appearance again!
Today ASUS kicks off its first season of the 3x3 OC Summit, utilizing its line of ROG motherboards. The company invited several professional overclocking teams to start its season, and they're all familiar faces. The teams include:
Xtreme Systems
OC Alliance
Team Pure
Several members of each team, along with reps from Intel and Corsair convened in Santa Clara, CA, just several short minutes from Intel's headquarters. Motherboards from ASUS' Rampage and Maximus lines were used with Intel supplying a batch of Core i7 980X 6-core processors. OCZ supplied its line of Vertex SSDs for the competition and overall, there was more hardware than you could shake a stick at.

Liquid nitrogen is the preferred cooling medium for such an event, and there's no shortage of it here. ASUS supplied two huge tanks of it but we were told there's just enough of it not to start doing crazy things.
The competition is actually under way as of this writing and ASUS has actually set up 4 live camera feeds so you can check out the action:
Official components used in the competition:
Intel Core i7-980X CPUs
ASUS Rampage III Extreme and Maximus III Extreme motherboards
ASUS Radeon HD 5870 Voltage Tweak cards
Corsair 6GB DDR3-2000C7 memory modules
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSDs
Antec 1200 PSUs
Check out some photos from the competition. Click for the gallery!















EDIT Shadow: Preheps a CH50 that was rigged to work on L2N?
I doubt the pump in the H50 will be able to handle the coolness of LN2 (no pun intended). The plastic,etc will probably crack.
Lol, liquid nitrogen is cheaper than milk.
Umm.... no. Not even close.
Liquid nitrogen costs about $0.06 per liter.. You must be getting yours from the wrong guy.
ASUS is good but I prefer Gigabyte motherboards over ASUS.
Link?
Obviously it will end up costing more if you're going to do a project like this and not use the containers again, because those are insanely expensive.
But the actual liquid nitrogen itself is extracted from liquified air extremely easily and is made industrially for very very little. You know the air we breathe is about 80% nitrogen right?
[EDIT: Here's a link to something, http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/KarenFan.shtml , it seems the internet is a bit quiet on how much it costs. Also, some of the documents here, http://www.nmtc.net/search/liquid-nitrogen-tank-price, show that the price varies wildly depending on who you are, how much you are buying, and who you buy it from, from less than a cent per litre to around a dollar.... Still cheaper than milk though :-]. ]
Yup. For a normal person, the cost is usually a ~$2-3 per liter. For a OC run, you easily burn through ~$200-300 worth of LN2.