Quote Originally Posted by xoqolatl View Post
They are not built on 7000 series PCB's. You can't put a chip on a PCB designed for totally different chip.
I don't know that the PCB is identical, but there was a pretty big thread on this a month or so ago, I think there was some indications that Nvidia is planned to share a lot of the PCB as a cost saving implementation.

Quote Originally Posted by Soulburner View Post
It supports the API but won't have enough power to push it in a truly next-gen game, as with all budget cards.
Yeah, I hate it when Nvidia does that, the 256meg Geforce 5200 comes to mind. DX9 with barely enough power to run the DX8 path of any game designed 2 years before it. And no possible way to turn up the graphics high enough to utilize all of that RAM.