Sorry to come late into the discussion, and just to mention: it would be wrong if readers of CCP4BB get the impression that "Quadro cards that support quad buffered stereo" have to be high-end. To the contrary, an entry-class Quadro K620 together with a €250 Nvidia 3D Vision 2 compatible monitor (with built-in emitter) gives you very nice stereo on Linux. There is more info at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Stereo#Nvidia_3D_Vision_2 .
To have higher resolution than 1920x1080 you may need some combination of higher-end monitor and (separate) emitter, and that would indeed require a 3-pin DIN connector and an expensive Quadro card. Also, an expensive Quadro is of course faster - but entry cards are, in contrast to popular belief, fast enough for crystallographic electron density + model inspection and modelling. In summary, the computer gamers have been supporting us crystallographers to the point that Stereo is quite affordable. best, Kay On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:05:20 +0000, Oganesyan, Vaheh <[email protected]> wrote: >Colleagues, > >I’d like to thank everyone who took time to answer my question regarding >Quadro cards that support quad buffered stereo. I now hope to build a >workstation with >Quadro 5000. > >Regards, > >Vaheh Oganesyan >www.medimmune.com >
