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Ian… We're about to take the PVR plunge, and were going to buy a new Micron P120 box to use as the editing station. It, in turn… will be networked to our SGI and we'll send our animation files over the network to the PC so we don't tie up the SGI doing any editing chores. Your comments about fitting the PVR into the Micron motherboard layout has me concerned as well. I just got the mobo layout last night and I see that the PCI slots are right on top of the CPU which has a fan/heat sink! It looks like you might squeeze the PVR into the "shared" slot (J16?) as the components apparently face that way. Then I'm thinking the TBC card could go in the far right slot with the video card and ethernet card in the center because they are relatively short lengths. Any light you could shed on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking a Gateway 133 might be an alternative, but they are almost a month in "building" your computer while Micron is usually 10 days to 2 weeks. Gateway uses the Intel mobo and maybe that layout is better? Another question I have (for you and others) is how well you think Diamond stacks up against Matrox with regard to drivers and overall support. The Gateway has the Millenium board as an option. Thanks in advance for the help and advice. \\\. ========================= >-==<MIKE(>=– >-==*- /