Designed to break performance barriers asus oc socket utilizes extra pins to connect a proprietary circuit to contacts found on haswell es land grid array lga this feature enables higher ddr4 memory frequencies lower latencies and enhanced stability while overclocking extending all the way to extreme overclocking conditions such as liquid nitrogen ln2 cache bus links areas such as cpu cores ddr4 memory controllers system agent and the shared l3 cache it is a critical interconnect f