I don't see this as a problem more of an added feature. Judging from what some of you have posted its a nice way to establish a base overclock prior to tweaking. Think of it this way how many of you will setup your overclock on the motherboard bios and then use set fsb, memset etc to gain that little bit extra for a spi run? I would consider this to be similar and just like clocking your fsb past it's boot limits if you go too far with this youll crash. However, once your in windows if may actually be a benefit to balance the pcie overclock with a driver level overclock and get better results. I wish i'd waited now and got the 9600 instead of 8800s but id like to see some tweaking to see if a pcie and driver balanced overclock can get you a better 3dmark score.