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See what happens when you put nine of the world's best overclockers in the same room with the latest 6th Gen. Intel CPUs, new ROG Maximus VIII Series Z170 mobos, liquid nitrogen and liquid helium.

Watch Andre & Smoke, with help from Hazzan and Shamino go nuts with liquid helium, an ROG Maximus V Extreme and that special Intel Core i7-3770K, then let us know your thoughts in the forums!

More pictures from the people behind yesterday's world record achievements. Check out our gallery below to see all the Liquid Helium action from Smoke, Andre, Shamino, Hazzan and the team on the Maximus V Extreme and a very special i7-3770K.

Andre, TeamRU and Smoke, with assistance from Hazzan, Shamino and a boat-load of Liquid Helium cracked the i7-3770K CPU frequency world record at 7184.3MHz on the Maximus V Extreme!

After lessons learnt on day 2 with liquid Helium, day 3 ran smoother. Andre cracked on attacking SuperPi and Prime records at 7GHz while Raja and Splave controlled the pressure and quantity of liquid Helium respectively. We've put together a full gallery of all the days happenings.

Day 2 the liquid helium arrived. This can't be handled like liquid nitrogen in flasks and pots, it needs to be applied directly from the central storage canister. The specialist (long) tubing to direct and apply the liquid helium down to the pot was a US$5,000 investment alone! It has its own valve to control the amount of liquid applied, but to generate the pressure to force it out the cryogenic canister, another compressed Helium bottle was used to push the liquid through. The combination of pressure and quantity of liquid Helium had to be balanced to keep the extreme temp stable.

Day 1 was filled with attempts at 2, 3 and 4-way CrossFire-X with MATRIX 7970's on the Maximus V Extreme. Unfortunately no records were broken, such is OC-life, but it was still great fun to try until 2:30am. See the gallery below for all the action from Shamino, Splave, Fred yama-san, Raja, Hazzan, Rsanino, Viss and Andre!