On the flip side, I did go into this review with high hopes considering the other Black Series boards I have tested, but I was left with a sour taste when it came to the overclocking side of the review. This board just did not like any increase I threw at it. I only achieved a 34MHz boost, which is the lowest overclock I have ever gotten. I attribute this to the weak overclocking options in the BIOS, because even raising the vCore to 1.47v could not get me any higher. Another thing you might want to look out for is the IDE port placement, which is at the bottom of the board. This might pose some severe problems for those of you who use IDE-based optical drives with large cases. I was surprised to see that the PCI Express x16 ports are limited to x8 electrically when two cards are placed in a CrossFireX configuration, but considering the bandwidth that PCI-E 2.0 brings to the table, this should not be an issue.