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The DEC daughtercard swap is definitely a pricey proposal. I'm anticipating the swap anyway as I have an XL566 which will probably quadruple its rendering speed if 3DS NT can run on the Alpha chip. There is at least one 3rd party vendor putting together Alpha boxes for a few hundred less than DEC sells direct. Their name always escapes me, Alpine maybe? I'll see what info I have lying around if your interested. I do not recall anyone selling Alpha motherboards except DEC, its worth a stop in one of their fora to find out. This proliferation of chips from Intel is numbing me. In the past year we've seen Pentium chips baby-step their way from 60mhz-66-90-100-120-133 next is 150 or is it P6, I'm dizzy. >> Contemplating moving to a completely new architecture is kindof scary. << I come from a predominantly DEC house, lots of VAXstations, Alphas and a few XL's. Pricey stuff but built quite well. Catch you at SIGGRAPH.