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From reading in this section I've picked up that the Matrox Impression+ is a good .board to use with TS. Forgiving please what is maybe an obvious question, could >someone tell me what this board does for TS that others do not; and whether it >helps with animation or with rendering (or both)? >Or is there a FAQ somewhere that helps? >thanks for any help >David The Matrox board has a 3D graphics accelerator. It will manipulate 150,000 polygons in real time. It also supports real time grouad shading. With this board modeling and animating are made easier by working with objects in shaded mode instead of wireframe with real time redraws. This way you don't have to wait for your video card to catch up to you and your ideas. This board will NOT make raytracing or phong rendering any faster. It does not support real time texture mapping. But the next accelerated boards to come to market will. I have it, I like it. (Matrox board) If you have Win NT, upgrade to versions 3.51, it's drivers are more stable. If you have Win 3.x, the drivers that come with it are great and so are the utilities. Also if you have NT, check out the OpenGL pipes screen saver with the Matrox board, it jams! Well, I hope this helps Alan