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Tasked with pushing performance on the Z390 platform as far as possible, we invited the best overclockers to ROG HQ for a week of extreme overclocking.

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.

The pro-overclockers at the OC Main Event in San Francisco have finished their overclocking efforts and have achieved 5 new world records! All were set using the Core i7-4960X, the Rampage IV Black Edition and Corsair Vengeance Extreme memory.

Two more world records and a second place! These guys are on fire! Late last week [early October] Smoke, 12, Team Russia (OCLabs.ru), Andre Yang and Shamino cracked out a few new records at ASUS HQ on the Maximus V Extreme and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card. See inside for the full results and gallery.

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!

Shamino has taken the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card and put it under liquid nitrogen (LN2). The end result? Firstly a huge 1,650MHz core frequency was hit, then half a day later 1,700MHz was squeezed out of it! That's a massive 84% increase over stock speed.

Here's ASUS' Shamino and Andre with the Rampage III Black Edition, an Intel Core i7-990X and four GTX580 DirectCU II graphics cards. And lots of LN2!