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Anyone would be hesitant to attempt the sub-zero cooling challenge without getting all the facts first, so why not get a few pointers from one of the best in the business? Here's Dancop's guide in three steps!

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.

Running on extreme cooling, Dancop, german overclocker, number 1 in the world on HWBOT.org and Der8auer, also german overclocker ranked #6 in the world on HWBOT.org, managed to achieved the best performance on XTU 4 x cores, Cinebench R11.5 4 x cores and 6 x cores.

Extreme Overclocker, John Lam, pushed his Core i7-4770K right through the 7GHz barrier on his silvered Maximus VII Gene, with a final frequency of 7193.81MHz at a massive 2.048V under liquid nitrogen. Submitted as part of ROG's OC Showdown | Z97 competition, John scores himself the cool $1,000 prize, congratulations!

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today launched its ROG OC Showdown online overclocking competition in co-operation with HWBot.org. Any overclocker using ASUS, ROG or TUF Z97 motherboards can enter. The competition will run for one month between July 15th, 2014 to August 15th, 2014, with the grand prize of a future ROG X99 motherboard. Additionally there is a prize of $1,000 for any world record broken by the end of the competition.

8 Pack has pushed four ASUS GTX 780 Ti's to 1,725MHz core clock and 2,000MHz (8GHz effective) memory frequency to score a 3DMark FireStrike Extreme world record with 25,332 marks!

8 Pack breaks yet another world record: this time Catzilla, scoring 41,525!