Obviously it doesn't work out ideally usually though because NV has developed things like NV42 and NV41 which are pure 12-pipe chips, not 16-pipe defectives. I have a NV42 in my notebook. Same thing with the 9500Pro debacle where ideally they would be able to make use of expensive, defective high-end chips in mid-range cards, but the yields were better than they projected so it ended up being a financial screw up.... Well maybe not a screw up, but they didn't make as much money as they could've if they'd planned their product range differently.