It’s been an interesting few weeks at the very top of the HWBOT world rankings of late. Despite neither of the league’s top two being too active, we did see a shift at the top with Xtreme Addict going back into first place for first time since July earlier this year. However, exactly how he managed to slip past Dancop is less clear and probably due to Dancop’s scores being whittled away by competing overclockers (indeed XA has not been overly active on HWBOT in the last month or so, perhaps he’s saving all his OC mojo for the World Championship Finals on Sunday).

Dancop too has been fairly quiet in the last few weeks. Regardless he regains his place at the top of the rankings today with a pair of solid world record scores. In 3DMark03 the new Global 1st place ranked score is now 345,563 marks, considerably ahead of Sofos from Greece who submitted a score of 307, 894 marks back in July.

The score from Dancop was made using a Core i7 6700K clocked at 6,742.5MHz (+68.56%), backed by a single Nvidia Titan X Pascal card with the GPU clocked at 2,265MHz (+59.84%) and the graphics memory pushed to 1,501MHz (+18%). The rig was based around an ASUS Maximus VIII Impact motherboard with G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 memory clocked at 2,081MHz (CL12.0 11-11-28 1T).

In the Unigine Heaven (Extreme Preset) benchmark Dancop used a similar setup to make a new Global 1st Place ranked score of 10,808.95 DX11 marks. This again is quite far ahead of the nearest contender Strong Island (US) with 9801.28 DX11 marks.

Regardless of all the above scoring it remains very close at the top. These two submissions mean that Dancop (Germany) now tops the HWBOT league with 3,309 points, ahead of Xtreme Addict (Poland) with 3,216 points. If XA wins the World Champinship Finals on Sunday, the situation may well change.

You can find the new World Record score for 3DMark03 here, plus the World Record score for Unigine Heaven Extreme here.