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Tom – One of my clients has just received a GXI eval unit, and they're going to be installing it in a day or so, and then I'll be taking a very close look at it, and that'll include compatiblity and benchmark testing. Just for your information, the SPEA board (which also has an onboard VGA), has passed every VGA-compatiblity test that I've thrown at it. I can't find any software that will not run in the SPEA's VGA overlay window, or in full-screen VGA mode. As far as performance goes, the SPEA (and most other 34020-based boards) are so fast that my most recent benchmarking software is unable to resolve the timings of pans and zooms with small drawings. I'm getting columns of 0.00's in both pans/zooms and redraws, and I'm going to be writing a new set of benchmarks to try to get a better picture of the relative performance of the SPEA and the GXI boards. I'll be more than happy to pass the results along to you, but you'll have to make your own interpretation of it, I won't make recommendations based soley on "performance". -TonyT.