Interestingly, we have both systems working in our lab. Our old station is 7 
years old with FX3700, view sonic monitor and 3-pin stereo emitter. My new one 
has K5000 and VG278HR, which just requires a pair of nVidia shatter glasses.  
Hope this helps.  Aidong

On Apr 2, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Andreas Schenk <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Thank you Kay for contacting the info site. The new categories are definitely 
> more helpful.
> And thank  you Lukasz, for the info about the FX3700.
> 
> Best,
> Andreas
> 
> On 04/01/2015 03:57 PM, Lukasz Salwinski wrote:
>> On 04/01/2015 12:31 PM, Kay Diederichs wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:04:31 -0400, Andreas Schenk 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/25/2015 18:10, Kay Diederichs wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:16:55 -0400, David Schuller <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> You could check the nVidia page of officially supported displays. It
>>>>>> includes a search tab so you can check for "Built-in Emitter."
>>>>>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-displays.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Performing that search brings up 5 contenders. Good luck finding any of
>>>>>> these products still for sale.
>>>>> Unfortunately, this NVidia page has not been updated for years.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The qualifier "3D-fähig (aktiv)" at 
>>>>> http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/?cat=monlcd19wide&xf=5848_3D-f%E4hig+(aktiv)#xf_top
>>>>>  should indicate a built-in emitter, but I looked at some of the 
>>>>> descriptions of these 11 monitors and was unable to confirm that they 
>>>>> indeed have a built-in emitter. So one has to research every specific 
>>>>> case.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I changed the wording on the wiki page.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kay
>>>>> 
>>>> I went through the specs for the monitors on the Heise list, and none of
>>>> them seems to have a built in emitter compatible with Nvidia 3D Vision
>>>> 2. It looks like it is a bad time to buy a 3D monitor. At this point it
>>>> might be easier to just go for a Quadro with 3-pin connector.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Andreas
>>>> 
>>> I asked the company who runs the price info site to check their 
>>> assignments, and they fixed the categories: 
>>> http://geizhals.eu/?cat=monlcd19wide now has a "inkl. 3D-emitter" 
>>> attribute. This currently only returns the Asus 278HR which can only be 
>>> bought in Poland, or through EBay.
>>> 
>>> The cheapest current Nvidia Quadro with (optional?) 3-pin DIN Stereo 
>>> connector (needed for Linux) is the K4200 
>>> (http://www.nvidia.de/object/quadro-desktop-gpu-specs-de.html) which starts 
>>> at ~ €700.
>>> 
>>> best,
>>> 
>>> Kay
>> FX3700 is the oldest Quadro model with 3-pin DIN Stereo connector that is
>> supported by the current nvidia drivers. it can be bought on ebay
>> for about $30-$40. works fine with coot/pymol.
>> 
>> lukasz
>> 
>> 

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