After reading a little more its clear that my original post was incorrect. Even the original tone of "crippling" hardware seems a little far fetched to me now,

After reading a little more its clear that my original post was incorrect. Even the original tone of "crippling" hardware seems a little far fetched to me now, it seems like these cards are just optimized differently for specific tasks (gaming, or workstation). Still would be nice if they could get their drivers working better under windows 7.