Kimir from France is currently number one on the HWBOT x265 Benchmark 4K Hall of Fame leaderboard. His Core i7 5960X based system is overclocked to 4.7 GHz and able to encode 4K at 7.18 frames per second. That is the best so far at HWBOT!

His system consists of a CPU cooled by custom water cooling, a set of HyperX Predator DDR4 at DDR4-3200 CL16, an ASUS Rampage V Extreme X99 motherboard, the OCZ Technology Vertex 4 120GB SSD and an Enermax 1200W Platimax power supply. You can find a beautiful system picture on the left hand side.

For more information on the HWBOT x265 Benchmark, check out the thread on our forum where Havli explains the ins and outs of the benchmark! For more information about Kimir's submission, check out the result page.