ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI all claim that they have the ultimate motherboard for extreme overclockers. We wanted to find out which one actually lives up to this claim and got two members of our Hardware.Info Pro OC team together with a large supply of liquid nitrogen to find out.

The target market of overclockers that actually use extreme cooling like LN2 is pretty small, but this does not stop motherboard manufacturers to try and associate themselves with this group. If a high-end overclocking board is regarded as the best on the market this will have an effect on the amount of mainstream motherboards being sold. All four larger boards manufacturers claim that their motherboards can achieve the best results when overclocking with extreme cooling measures.

This claim is pretty easy to make, as it is very hard to verify if it is true. There is a lot of difference in the overclocking potential of CPU's, and even on Hwbot.org it is difficult to see which board actually gets the best results. There is no one that actually tests the same CPU on different motherboards with extreme cooling to see what board is the best.