In Week 29 of 2017, we received 3305 benchmark results from 870 registered overclockers around the world. The majority of the submissions is coming from Rookie overclockers representing 59% 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.

With the Core X platform more readily available and the expansion of the Ryzen CPUs, enthusiasts have a lot of choice for their rigs. On the leaderboard this week we find 4 golden entries. First up is Dancop from Germany with a World Record in 3DMark03. He beat TeamAU and Rauf's earlier efforts by 5000 points using a Core i7 7740X processor clocked at 7170 MHz and a Titan Xp grapbics card clocked at 2379/1603 MHz. Next up is H2o vs. Ln2 from the United States who scored a hardware first place in the GeForce GTX 1070 3DMark Time Spy benchmark. The final score is 8143 marks with the graphics card overclocked to 2240/2451 MHz and a Broadwell-E Core i7 6950X overclocked to 4700 MHz. Both are of course cooled with custom loop water cooling. Now it's Italy-time! xMec scores a Global First Place in the 2xCPU HWBOT x265 1080P benchmark with a Core i3 7350K processor clocked at 6565 MHz. The benchmark only recently has points enabled and across all categories overclockers are currently aiming for the top spots. Last but not least we also have xXbladeXx from Italy. He scored a new hardware first place in the heavily contested Core i7 4790K XTU leaderboard. xXbladeXx manages to get his CPU stable at 6.1 GHz and scores 10 points more than Xtreme Addict. Congratulations to everyone making the leaderboard!

The most used hardware components of Week 29 are the Core i7 7700K (12.3%), GeForce GTX 1080 (10.9%) and the ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero (2.3%). In total the community used 341 different CPUs, 231 different GPUs and 777 different motherboards.

The overclocking results submitted during Week 29 generated in total 495 World Record Points, 7435.2 Global Points, and 6337.9 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 32% for Elite, 31% for Extreme, 7% for Apprentice, 12% for Enthusiast, 6% for Novice, and 19% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 3% Elite, 9% Extreme, 4% Apprentice, 16% Enthusiast, 9% Novice, and 59% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 29, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Rsannino		126.3 pts		Dancop		217.6 pts (WR!)		H2o vs. Ln2		30.8 (HFP!)
Extreme		xMec		83.7 pts (GFP!)		Bullshooter		42.8 pts		xXbladeXx		50 pts (HFP!)
Apprentice		Jab383		39.6 pts		Hilderman		20.6 pts		jordan.hyde99		24 pts
Enthusiast		G4tt0n3r0		50.3 pts		Jeneeben		23 pts		Bolc		24.3 pts
Novice		miker2ka		49.8 pts		Slovak_Killer		18.9 pts		miker2ka		49.8 pts
Rookie		NetflixAPopcorn		34.9 pts		Luke82		26.7 pts		Frito		23.6 pts