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Can anyone out there tell me about the new 3DS renderer for the Silicon Graphics computer line. Specifically, I need to know if the SGI renderer will take advantage of the graphics engins in the Indigo 2 extreme or if it only uses the CPU. If it does only use the CPU then is it just as good to use a lower end Indy to render on or will I still get better performance on the Indigo 2. Thanks in advance.