In Week 41 of 2017, we received 3623 benchmark results from 919 registered overclockers around the world. The majority of the submissions is coming from Rookie overclockers representing 55% of the active community. They were responsible for 32% of the submissions. We had a peek at the most valuable submissions in a breakdown per league.

During Week 41 of 2017 four overclockers made it to the leaderboard with a golden cup. First up is Splave (USA) with a Global First Place in the 4xCPU HWBOT X265 1080P benchmark with a Core i7 7740X clocked at 6959 MHz. With 58.47FPS the US-based overclocker is 0.29FPS faster than Bigblock990. Next up is the inevitable K|ngp|n also from the USA. His 3DMark Time Spy 1xGPU Global First Place lists both in the 3D as well as the Hardware spot this week. For an overall score of 14507 marks, the 3D superpower uses a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 2607/1665 MHz paired with the 18-core Core i9 7980XE processor at 5600 MHz. Next, we have two Hardware First Place entries. First of all, Bolc from France with a top spot in the Core i5 3470 category scoring 853 marks. Next, Ev0lv3 from Australia with 351 marks in the Core i5 5200U category. Congrats everyone!

The most used hardware components of Week 41 are the Core i7 7700K (12.0%), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11.1%) and the ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex (4.0%). In total the community used 341 different CPUs, 222 different GPUs and 736 different motherboards.

The overclocking results submitted during Week 41 generated in total 430 World Record Points, 7271.5 Global Points, and 8094.5 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 16% for Elite, 28% for Extreme, 10% for Apprentice, 20% for Enthusiast, 12% for Novice, and 25% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 2% Elite, 8% Extreme, 5% Apprentice, 19% Enthusiast, 11% Novice, and 55% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 41, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Splave		121.1 pts (GFP!)		K|ngp|n		178.1 pts (GFP!)		K|ngp|n		41.2 pts (HFP!)
Extreme		Shar00750		57.4 pts		Superpatodonaldo		53.9 pts		Hellbert		49.8 pts
Apprentice		Ben Flint		44.9 pts		Tom_tol		40.6 pts		Aleslammer		23.6 pts
Enthusiast		Wernersen		50 pts		Ximi		42.4 pts		Bolc		49.7 pts (HFP!)
Novice		tknight		52.1 pts		RedundancyMaster		28.4 pts		Evasion		23.8 pts
Rookie		Ev0lv3		49.8 pts		Hannibal.Lekter		42 pts		Ev0lv3		49.8 pts (HFP!)