Everything took place under the direction of Slovakia’s most successful extreme overclocker. He showed students something that one does not normally get to experience, whether at school or anywhere else. Of course, it is not really something for home, but as a demonstration of how far computer hardware can be pushed, it is great. Breaking records, however, requires sufficient cold. Liquid nitrogen (LN2) certainly goes really deep into sub-zero temperatures.
During the Asus block of talks, a system cooled with liquid nitrogen was also on the stage. We owe this initiative to the Asus representative, at whose invitation two enthusiasts came who favor liquid nitrogen as a cooling medium. This is mainly for achieving record-breaking results with computer hardware, which they push to the limit of its capabilities.
It is an extremely cold medium (down to around -196 °C), which creates good conditions for cooling, for example, processors with high power consumption and heat output. These two things are closely tied to high clock speeds, which are the main goal.
Achieving top results in this area is also a good demonstration that Asus motherboards have truly robust power delivery and are prepared for such… situations as well.
Standing at the liquid nitrogen table was, among others, ShaggySVK, who holds first place among all Slovak competitors in the hwbot.org rankings. In 2026 he was at the G.Skill booth at the Computex trade show, and in October at HWCooling Techtour ‘26.
Overclocking a processor with the help of liquid nitrogen is extremely demanding in terms of skill, whether in the use of liquid nitrogen as such or in the preparation of everything around it. Whether in the photos or in the video, you can see the insulation that protects the motherboard from the undesirable effects of liquid nitrogen, whether moisture, frost, or… and we do not intend to elaborate on that, as it is a topic somewhat outside HWC’s scope. This video captures a record that was set with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
