I've got an older xecuter 2.6ce with a xapt3r and it works fine, never came out of aliagnment. my old matrix came out of alignment every other day it seemed like. if you aren't gonna have the front panal lcd and other 3.0 things I'd just get a 2.6. mine came with a little panal for turning the mod on and off, bank switching and something else I've never used and forgot about. hehehe