Hi all, and thank you for the forums.
At the moment I'm trying to get my system to run as fast as possible but no matter how hard I try, there's always someone with an identical setup
that scores higher on all synthetic benchmarks. My spec is as follows and is 100% stable:

• CPU - i7 6700k @ 4600
  
• Motherboard - Maximus VIII Hero
  
• RAM - 16GB (2x8) g.skill 4 @ 3200 XPM
  
• Graphics Card - GTX 980 ti @ Core 1600, Memory 4000
  
• SSD : Crucial MX series 256GB
  
• HDD Seagate 3 TB
  
• Corsair 800 watt platinum PSU
  

The temperatures are absolutely not an issue. Lettings furmark run accidentally while my wife and I went shopping for 6 hours showed a max GPU temp of 72c.
Running Prime95 for 2 hours reported no errors. And in to real world tests : Rise of the Tomb Raider for 4 hours showed no problems
no artifacts or weird colors. Witcher III for 2 hours also ran perfectly until I manually exited the game. Both of those games were running on Ultra / Max.
CPU has never been over 70c.

My RAM timings are also altered to 14-16-16-28 @ 1.36v . Trying to up the clock speed of the RAM just cased an error on boot, that's why I went with improving
the timings and increasing the voltage to accomodate.

My question is : How do people with identical systems score so high on benchmarks?. Not just slightly higher but much higher. They aren't muti-GPU either.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!