In Week 26 of 2017, we received 3457 benchmark results from 832 registered overclockers around the world. The majority of the submissions is coming from Rookie overclockers representing 61% of the active community. They were responsible for 38% of the submissions. We had a peek at the most valuable submissions in a breakdown per league.

This week we find three golden cups in the leaderboard. First up is Sofos1990 from Greece with a Global First Place in the HWBOT Prime 8xCPU benchmark. For this feat Sofos uses a Core i7 7820X Skylake-X processor clocked to 5900MHz and a GIGABYTE X299-SOC Champion motherboard. Next up is Dancop from Germany with another Global First Place. This time around, he is the first to break the 14K barrier in 3DMark Time Spy 1xGPU. For the golden score Dancop uses a single Titan Xp graphics card clocked at 2400/1624 MHz paired with a Core i9 7900X Skylake-X at 5904 MHz. The entire setup runs on the not-yet-released ROG Rampage VI Apex motherboard. Last but not least we have a blast from the past with Luumi from Finland scoring top spot in the Core 2 Quad Q6600 SuperPI 1M ranking. The CPU is clocked at 5169 MHz and the final result is 9.719 seconds. Congratulations to everyone making the leaderboard!

The most used hardware components of Week 26 are the Core i7 7700K (13.3%), GeForce GTX 1070 (10.1%) and the GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H (2.5%).

The overclocking results submitted during Week 26 generated in total 25 World Record Points, 5144.6 Global Points, and 6478 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 21% for Elite, 30% for Extreme, 7% for Apprentice, 23% for Enthusiast, 6% for Novice, and 20% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 2% Elite, 8% Extreme, 4% Apprentice, 16% Enthusiast, 9% Novice, and 61% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 26, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Sofos1990		102.9 pts (GFP!)		Dancop		135.4 pts (GFP!)		H2o vs. Ln2		20.6 pts
Extreme		Marauder.N		59.4 pts		futto-kun		39.7 pts		Luumi		49.9 pts
Apprentice		jordan.hyde99		37.9 pts		topyoyoguybest		18.5 pts		jordan.hyde99		22.7 pts
Enthusiast		Nik		33.5 pts		Iji		41 pts		bolc		24.3 pts
Novice		Solidton		38.9 pts		miker2ka		26.6 pts		Solidton		24.2 pts
Rookie		AmikomOC		32.3 pts		DweEroz		26.6 pts		kingston@#		23.8 pts