In Week 17 of 2017, we received 3701 benchmark results from 1016 registered overclockers around the world. The majority of the submissions is coming from Rookie overclockers representing 60% of the active community. They were responsible for 40% of the submissions. We had a peek at the most valuable submissions in a breakdown per league.

During Week 17 of this year we have a total of 5 overclockers with a golden cup in the Most Valuable Submission leaderboard. First in line is Splave from the United States with a Global First Place in the XTU 2xCPU benchmark. The American pushed his Core i3 7350K to 6700 MHz and scored 1216 marks. That is two more than runner-up Rsannino. Next up is the inevitable Dancop from Germany. The Number One overclocker in the world pushed the NVIDIA Titan Xp to 2265/1624 Mhz and combined with a 7 GHz Core i7 7700K this resulted in a new 3DMark03 World Record. Dancop scored353660 marks, which is more than 500 points higher than Smoke. Then we come to the Hardware First Place results. Oldscarface from the Netherlands grabbed gold with the Pentium E2160 in the CPU Frequency benchmark. His chip reached 568.43 MHz FSB resulting in an overall CPU frequency of 5115.89 MHz. Next in line with a HFP is Scannick from Italy, who scored a global cup in the Radeon HD 4870 3DMark01 ranking. Combining a 6.8 GHz Core i7 7700K and a graphics card overclocked to 1150/1050 MHz results in a score of 156998 marks. Last but not least we also celebrate Samsarulz from Chile who scores a golden cup in the Radeon HD 7950 3DMark11 Performance benchmkark. The graphics card is overclocked to 1300/1800 MHz and is combined with an Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor. Congratulations to everyone making the leaderboard!

The overclocking results submitted during Week 17 generated in total 245 World Record Points, 7774.6 Global Points, and 8570.4 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 22% for Elite, 38% for Extreme, 14% for Apprentice, 14% for Enthusiast, 5% for Novice, and 21% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 2% Elite, 8% Extreme, 4% Apprentice, 18% Enthusiast, 8% Novice, and 60% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 17, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Splave		185 pts (GFP!)		Dancop		217.7 pts (WR!)		Oldscarface		49.7 pts
Extreme		xMec		69.9 pts		Nachtfalke		54.5 pts		Scannick		49.8 pts
Apprentice		DarkSFA		32.8 pts		Warper		37 pts		Samsarulz		36.2 pts
Enthusiast		Acegrc		40.3 pts		DennyCorsa86		28.1 pts		Acegrc		24.4 pts
Novice		Johnd0e		37.7 pts		Albert.Hoffman		27.8 pts		Albert.Hoffman		25.8 pts
Rookie		Alxdeja		39.4 pts		JimJamJamin		28.2 pts		Koralays		28.4 pts