Really, how many people overclock with liquid Nitrogen???

Just ordered a new motherboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_EVO_R20/). I notice on the ASUS site it has this graphic:

http://www.asus.com/websites/global/...d_Line_new.jpg

So from the diagram in the middle, it supports overclocking with liquid nitrogen?

I guess that means the VRMs are pretty robust which is nice, but really, how many people are going to care about that???

I read that as saying "you can get up to 100% overclock on your CPU*"

*results obtained with LN2

So I don't think you're meant to care about the LN2 aspect of it... I suspect they're hoping you don't even notice. They probably got better clocks and thus a better marketing graphic than if they'd just tested on air/water.

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Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix

Just ordered a new motherboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_EVO_R20/). I notice on the ASUS site it has this graphic:

http://www.asus.com/websites/global/...d_Line_new.jpg

So from the diagram in the middle, it supports overclocking with liquid nitrogen?

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Support might be a bit strong, but yeah, seems to have a LN2 mode - presumably just removes the limit on voltage selection.

No one uses it lol. It's only for competitions right? Maybe that is the future of cooling though...

I know of one, Seems pretty pointless to me though

It's not used for normal use obviously, but for benchmarking etc.
Think of it as drag racing or whatever, it's just to see how fast you can make stuff go. (it's also good fun :D)

I think it's worded like that to stop people complaining when they can't get a 100% oc on their chip on air :P

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Originally Posted by GeorgeStorm

It's not used for normal use obviously, but for benchmarking etc.
Think of it as drag racing or whatever, it's just to see how fast you can make stuff go. (it's also good fun :D)

I think it's worded like that to stop people complaining when they can't get a 100% oc on their chip on air :P

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Well put

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Originally Posted by GeorgeStorm

It's not used for normal use obviously, but for benchmarking etc.
Think of it as drag racing or whatever, it's just to see how fast you can make stuff go. (it's also good fun :D)

I think it's worded like that to stop people complaining when they can't get a 100% oc on their chip on air :P

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But why would you complain when you know you can't keep the temps low enough? Someone who isn't aware of temp limits and tries overclocking 100%... You think it's there just for these few idiots?

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Originally Posted by ZaO

But why would you complain when you know you can't keep the temps low enough? Someone who isn't aware of temp limits and tries overclocking 100%... You think it's there just for these few idiots?

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It's about honest advertising. It's reasonable to expect to use a motherboard without LN2 so any advertised features would reasonably be expected to apply without LN2, unless otherwise noted.

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Originally Posted by kalniel

It's about honest advertising. It's reasonable to expect to use a motherboard without LN2 so any advertised features would reasonably be expected to apply without LN2, unless otherwise noted.

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Yeh I appreciate the honesty of it..

Like said, it's great it can, but as most can't and won't it's perhaps a bit misleading as such a subnote, even more so that you'd need to realise that you won't achieve 100% in LN2 mode alone, you actually need the liquid nitrogen too.

I guess it's a bit like a car manufacturer quoting a 0-60/top speed based on rocket fuel.

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Originally Posted by phil4

I guess it's a bit like a car manufacturer quoting a 0-60/top speed based on rocket fuel.

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I believe they often use specially trained drivers for those 0-60 times, and expect to burn the clutch out doing them :D

I can kind of see the point in one of the top of the range boards, all part of the halo product thing. This isn't top of the range though.

Even if I could afford an unlimited supply of LN2, I have to wonder how much I would trust an unvalidated 8GHz cpu to give me correct results.

I also wonder just how many watts an 8350 must pull at that clock! Mind you, from googling around it seems that 8.4GHz was achieved with only 2 cores.

Think I'll pass :D

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Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix

I believe they often use specially trained drivers for those 0-60 times, and expect to burn the clutch out doing them :D

I can kind of see the point in one of the top of the range boards, all part of the halo product thing. This isn't top of the range though.

Even if I could afford an unlimited supply of LN2, I have to wonder how much I would trust an unvalidated 8GHz cpu to give me correct results.

I also wonder just how many watts an 8350 must pull at that clock! Mind you, from googling around it seems that 8.4GHz was achieved with only 2 cores.

Think I'll pass :D

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You know. Just for a laugh I clocked my 2500K at 6Ghz on stock volts once just to see if it would boot. Got into the UEFI without any crashes just fine lol. Probably could've set it higher but that was funny enough. Doesn't really say much for real world stbility though does it :P