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Rick… We wound up getting the DPS cards from another source. Mark and I talked about it, and it seemed like it made sense for now since he didn't seem care if we waited for him to get the dealership or we got them elsewhere. I spoke to Dan.x at DPS Canada today and he told me that as of this moment, he's not comfortable recommending the Matrox since they've had a number of PVR customers call in with problems. He is recommending the Diamond Stealth 64VRAM which he knows works. Jamie Carr was using this board in a Raptor 3 at the Video Expo two weeks ago, and it seemed to perform w/o a glitch. Dan told me that Matrox had promised someone a "firmware" update for the Millennium but that's the last he heard about it. While I would've liked to go the Matrox route for it's added features, I guess I can live with the Diamond. OTH, I've decided to conduct a "straw poll" here and ask PVR users what they are using and how well it's performing. If I see that there's a new set of drivers or chip BIOS for the Matrox that makes it and the PVR happy, then guess what? Maybe if you choose the Matrox, Mark will loan me the Hercules till I decide which way to go <ROFL>! BTW, which drive did you go with? Dan said they tested the IBM UltraSTAR with high hopes, but it didn't measure up to snuff so the best drive is still the Micropolis 3243 AV IHHO. Best price we got on that so far was around $1249 from some mail order house. If we can get it from Mark at about the same price, I'd rather give him the business. \\\. ========================= >-==<MIKE(>=– >-==*- /