Graphics card overclocking record broken -- rig looks like a sci-fi movie set

How does he have a 1300 Watt Power Supply when in one of the images it CLEARLY shows only 1200 WATTS??? --- Editor's note: Fixed

LOL.. I've been building my own PC's for over 15 years and there are only 3 things I recognize in those pictures - a monitor, a keyboard and a power supply.

That's the proper way to handle liquid nitrogen... /sarcasm

If only there was a point to all this wasting of liquid nitrogen, oh well. It's all about the 24/7 OC, this is just so pointless...

He could have pushed it further if he used a 3960X, and 16GB of Dominator GT RAM. Also, what about the SSD? What did he use?

It's LN2 not Plutonium. You'd see worse at many an overclocker event

Nitrogen isn't overly scarce. If you consider sub-zero overclocking a sport , then it consumes a lot less resources than many others ( motor racing for example). At this level of overclocking it's all about sponsorship and marketing, and has about as much relevance to a daily desktop OC as top fuel drag racing does to a local gymkhana

lol

It is also an Antec True Power Quattro (TPQ) as noted by the red stripe, giant 1200 on the case, and a wire fan grill not a HighCurrent Pro. The HighCurrent Pro is matte black with a stamped fan grill.

@ TomSEA: I recognize a lot of the voltmeters, electricity/current flow equipment. I've seen liquid nitrogen setups at electronic expos and have did some water-cooled builds myself. Hard to believe someone putting together PC's for that long (even non-overclocked builds) does not recognize any of it but I can see it.

oh, yeah?
but will it run crysis?

seriously, it would have been better if the new overclock record was done on a "properly assembled computer" and not on a nuked environment.

anyway, kudos to the overclocking community... you set a new bar yet again.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/7

considering that at release the GTX680 could almost get the solid 60FPS @ 1080p in Crysis, I think the answer is, yes, something can finally play crysis. Then again, they have three...

On a side note, this reminded me of a quote from Mystery Science Theater 3000: The movie
"increase the flash gordon noise and put more science stuff around"

The third picture should be called "moments before everything Boom"

these are the guys we are looking for to cure cancer.... oh wait... thats not important at all...

when PC gaming was king it would have been cool but now it is only an exercise in futility.

:-(

Well 4 actually. Its 4 way sli. Too rich for me. I wanna be a billionaire so I could afford to mess around with crap like that.

how many cards did he burn before getting this right ?

I recently overclocked my clock, and now it's Christmas.

Liquid nitrogen is cheaper than bottled water (or at least it was when I was doing chemisty at school). 80% of the air is nitrogen.

Liquid helium would give the best results but its getting short in supply and so is very very expensive these days.