In Week 42 of 2017, we received 4091 benchmark results from 958 registered overclockers around the world. The majority of the submissions is coming from Rookie overclockers representing 56% of the active community. They were responsible for 37% of the submissions. We had a peek at the most valuable submissions in a breakdown per league.

During Week 42 of 2017, three overclockers made it to the leaderboard with a golden cup. First up is Dancop from Germany. The new leader in the Overclockers League has been playing with a retail Core i7 8700K processor and it's been doing excellent. The golden cup is achieved in the XTU 6xCPU benchmark where Dancop hit a score of 3723 marks which is 62 points higher than Alex@ro's launch result. The CPU frequency is 6700 MHz. Next up is Rauf from Sweden who's took an important single GPU Global First Place in the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark. Following K|ngp|n and Xtreme Addict in the chase for 15K, the Swedish overclocker is now in the lead with a score of 14700 points. The graphics card used is of course the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in combination with a 5600 MHz Core i9 7980XE processor. The clock frequencies of the graphics card are 2721/1645 MHz. Last but not least there's Hideo from Japan with a Hardware First Place in the GeForce GTX 580 Aquamark ranking. Paired with a 6925 MHz Core i7 7700K Kaby Lake processor, the new top score is 632301 marks. That is almost 3000 points higher than runner-up Bullshooter. Congrats everyone!

The most used hardware components of Week 42 are the Core i7 7700K (10.1%), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (10.0%) and the ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex (2.9%). In total the community used 338 different CPUs, 231 different GPUs and 770 different motherboards.

The overclocking results submitted during Week 42 generated in total 335 World Record Points, 8175.3 Global Points, and 8041.9 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 18% for Elite, 20% for Extreme, 12% for Apprentice, 22% for Enthusiast, 10% for Novice, and 29% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 2% Elite, 9% Extreme, 4% Apprentice, 18% Enthusiast, 11% Novice, and 56% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 42, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Dancop		173 pts (GFP!)		Rauf		179.2 pts (GFP!)		Gunslinger		49.8 pts (HFP!)
Extreme		Luumi		49.7 pts		Hideo		49.8 pts		Hideo		49.8 pts
Apprentice		Topyoyoguybest		49.8 pts		Totalnet		41.6 pts		Topyoyoguybest		49.8 pts
Enthusiast		PKBO		64.6 pts		Even.de		44.8 pts		Avalanche		23.5 pts
Novice		Jliboon		47 pts		Frito		31.2 pts		Supatel		38.8 pts
Rookie		TomSerious		51.2 pts		Xxl.razor.lxx		20 pts		Arp		29.3 pts (HFP!)