We're writing to let you all know that we have just
posted a new article at HotHardware.com in which we experiment with Liquid Nitrogen
overclocking. In order to push the limits of the 975, we decided to leave the
safe confines of air cooling and enter the precarious world of sub-zero
chilling. Liquid nitrogen, or LN2, is commonly used as a coolant within the
overclocking scene and can reach much lower temperatures than air, water, or
the phase change cooling you may be accustomed to. While we are used to seeing
processors operate in air-cooled settings of around 40'C, the use of LN2 will
allow us to push clock speeds all the way down in the -80'C range in order to
unlock the overclocking capabilities of both the motherboard and CPU. We paired
a Core i7 975 processor with the EVGA X58 Classified motherboard to find out
just how far we can go with the X58 platform and Intel's current flagship CPU. @ HotHardware
