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Hi There! So I'm one of those newby, 3DS wannabe types. I'm gathering info on "stuff" to get to put together a machine specificly for 3DS. It will be a P5-100mhz (not fast enough). So what are the best svga cards for this app? Or should I ask what are the pros and cons of the top few cards? Does it really matter? Does the video card's speed affect only the modeling screens? Is Liquid Speed the hot setup? That is the less important issue I'm learning about, the major important issue is rendering quality. I'm not 100% clear about the relationship between the video card and a framebuffer card. Does the frame buffer generate an image from data as a video card does or does it use the image -from- the video card and then convert it to NTSC video signal. You do have to have both cards don't you? See, I'm trying to be one of the first real anim shops here. (Anchorage, AK) Noone is really tapping the market here yet but I expect a flood any minute. I intend to have the best broadcast quality output and am trying to figure out the best way to go in hardware. So far it seems the Truevision Pro would be correct, but what else?… Beta SP is the output format. In the mean time I've been rendering to disk on a 486DX thirrrrrrtyyy thrrrreeeeeeee and then getting it to video via the DVI card and CineWorks. The result is "industrial" quality video, whatever that is. (Somewhere in the VHS SVHS Hi8 domain) Plenty good enough to learn on and for my lo buck clients for now. Sorry this got so long, I sure would appreciate a batch of informed ramblings though. ( besides, autodesk sent me here) Thanks………………………………….pd of ak // \___/p