In Week 45 of 2017, we received 4359 benchmark results from 1037 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 37% of the submissions. We had a peek at the most valuable submissions in a breakdown per league.

During Week 45 of 2017, four overclockers made the leaderboard with a golden cup. First up is Dancop with two entries in this week's table. First up is a Global First Place in the XTU 6xCPU category with a score of 3788 marks. This was achieved with the current second-most popular CPU at HWBOT, the Core i7-8700K, at 6733 MHz. In addition, Dancop also broke the World Record in 3DMark06, setting the bar at 74336 marks. For this the same Core i7-8700K was used, but clocked at an incredible 7118 MHz. Next up is Splave with a Hardware First Place in the 3DMark Vantage Performance GeForce GTX 680 category. The top score is now 64358 marks and was achieved with the graphics card clocked at 1650/1900 MHz. Third overclocker to nail a golden cup is Traktor from Russia with a Hardware First Place in the 3DMark11 Performance 2x Radeon HD 7970 category. The new top score in the category is 28722 points and was achieved with the pair of graphics cards clocked at 1244/1691 MHz. Last but not least is Dr4gon1 from the United States. He scored a Hardware First Place in the Aquamark3 GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card. Congrats everyone!

The most used hardware components of Week 45 are the Core i7 7700K (10.0%), GeForce GTX 1080 (12.2%) and the ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex (2.7%). In total the community used 330 different CPUs, 230 different GPUs and 749 different motherboards.

The overclocking results submitted during Week 45 generated in total 230 World Record Points, 9122.3 Global Points, and 6888.5 Hardware Points. The distribution per League is as follows: 15% for Elite, 23% for Extreme, 11% for Apprentice, 23% for Enthusiast, 9% for Novice, and 31% for Rookie. The representation of the active community is as follows: 2% Elite, 7% Extreme, 4% Apprentice, 17% Enthusiast, 11% Novice, and 59% Rookie.

Most Valuable Submissions - Week 45, 2017
League	CPU Benchmark				GPU Benchmark				Hardware Points
Elite		Dancop		198.6 pts (GFP!)		Dancop		122.5 pts (WR!)		Splave		48.0 pts
Extreme		Electron Libre		83.4 pts		Noppon1412		54.6 pts		Traktor		48.8 pts
Apprentice		Topyoyoguybest		34.0 pts		CptSpig		44.9 pts		Da__rk		23.3 pts
Enthusiast		KaRtA		63.0 pts		Even.de		47.3 pts		KaRtA		49.8 pts
Novice		Bottangelo78		40.3 pts		Dr4gon1		29 pts		Dr4gon1		29 pts
Rookie		Petry		60.9 pts		MegaLegan		35.5 pts		Leker16		39.7 pts