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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.

Finnish overclocker, the Stilt, has cracked 8.2GHz on an A10-6800K using an ASUS F2A85-V Pro to set a new world record! Settings included: 130.21MHz bus x 63 at around 2V using Liquid Nitrogen.

Get your pots ready and your liquid nitrogen refilled because the ASUS Open Overclocking Championship (AOOC) 2013 qualifiers have opened. For one month overclockers from Europe and CIS are invited to compete for the right to perform in the finals in three disciplines: Super Pi 32M, 3DMark11 Performance and 3DMark Fire Strike.

Play, Learn, Win Great Prizes! On July 28th and July 29th, ASUS, in conjunction with Fry’s Electronics and partners NVIDIA®, Patriot Memory® and Antec® will be putting on Republic of Gamers Experience Tour @ Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale, CA. A celebration of all things PC gaming, ROG @ Fry’s will play host to a variety of activities designed to engage gamers of all ages at all points of the gaming spectrum – from casual to hardcore. Visitors will have a chance to try out the latest ROG gaming-optimized hardware including the just-released Maximus V Extreme & Maximus V Formula Z77 motherboards, G75 Gaming Laptops and Vulcan Active Noise Cancelling Headphones.

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!

The Indonesian ROG Team recently ran its Extreme OC competition in Jakarta, and OverclockingTV was there to cover the event. See the video below for details.

Overclocking was once considered a dark and forbidden art, but no more. Now overclocking is an accepted part of computer components. From the CPU manufactures across the board (bad pun intended) and ASUS has been at the forefront of that evolution with the ROG range of motherboards. Just as the hardware used for overclocking has evolved and developed so has the manner in which overclocking is practiced.