Extremely extreme extremeness
To give you some idea how high the clock speeds can get, Oppainter was shooting for a new 3DMark05 record with his CPU running at 3.46GHz while the video card ran at 850/700MHz core and RAM clocks. This practice led to the death of a Radeon X850 XT, so he had to get a replacement. I believe the other guys were running their X850 XTs closer to 800/680MHz.

On the first day of the event, Fugger manged to get his Athlon 64 FX cranked up to 3.754GHz. He was shooting for 4GHz and came away a little disappointed. That led, on Saturday, to the following terrifying sight:

I am not kidding you

Yep, it's a giant cannister of liquid nitrogen. I swear, I am not making this up. With help from Chilly1, Fugger connected the liquid nitrogen to his setup, aiming for unearthly temperatures. I understand they then used evaporation in order to cool things off even futher. I'm not sure of all the ins and outs of the setup, but at one point, I leaned over read an eletronic gauge in Chilly1's hands that said the temperature of the CPU was -312 degrees Fahrenheit, which works out to -191 degrees Celsius.

That brings the phrase "overclocking is dangerous" a whole new meaning. Thank goodness those guys seemed to know what they were doing.

The supply line for the liquid nitrogen quickly collected ice

Vapor wafts down from the iced-over copper supply line

Fugger examines the cooling setup

Unfortunately, even with the liquid nitrogen, I didn't see any overclocking records fall. I had to leave late Saturday afternoon, and the guys continued their attempts well into Sunday. They were plagued by little problems here and there much of the time, though, and I haven't caught wind of any new records yet. Nevertheless, it was quite a show.