Extreme overclocking is something that I have wanted to do for some time and now I have gotten the opportunity to do it courtesy of Valgaur over on Overclock.net who had a great deal on LN2 kit.
The system I used to start is a 3970X, MSI X79A-GD45 Plus, some random OCZ memory, a Golden Edition MSI 560 Ti, and an OCZ PCIE SSD.
Also a Deepcool PSU.
So I got it:
Now, I started with insulating the motherboard with Kneaded Eraser to protect it from any water condensation. I chose to use Kneaded Eraser as it is the easiest to take off the motherboard after using it for Extreme overclocking. So basically, I covered up every single part of the board that was vulnerable to condensation with the stuff.
I also put some foam to cover the bottom of the board to protect is as well:
Then I mounted the CPU pot and the thermal sensor:
And got the system up and running with just the CPU pot to see if it worked:
After it did I went and grabbed some dry ice and here are my results so far:
I'll update the thread as I get more subs with different hardware, etc :D