The teams got their hands on the hardware around 10:00am, with around one hour preparation time they had to work quick to get everything properly insulated. The German OCers prefer the liquid tape from Plasti Dip, while others still use erazor gum or Vaseline or a combo of all three. Secondly to reach high memory clocks these had to be frozen too and needed also to be taken care of, so in fact doubling the workload.

While most either opted to just position their heavy LN2 CPU pot on top of the Intel Devils Canyon processor, others had a pressure mount, however the most ingenious solution was from the Awardfabrik team. I'll let the pictures do the talking...