Hi,
the FX4500 is what Mac likes to sell to us but in principle the driver
should be able to work with any Nvidia card of the same family (quadro
FX). These type of cards have hardware openGL implemented on a chip,
instead of partly emulating the commands by software. This makes the
quadro card work fast with O and coot etc. but slow with most of the
games as they require other graphic gadgets.
We also do not use stereo much, mostly for public relation purposes.
However, I can highly recommended the students to use it especially for
writing a manuscript: It minimizes the chances of having important
features overlooked!!
Quadro's have two clock frequency chips allowing to connect two screens
(CRT and LCD) that run at different frequencies. Two screens are very
helpful and I can highly recommend it: on the 20" CRT, coot can run in
stereo (120 Hz) and on the 19" LCD (60 Hz), the coot menus can be
operated without having to minimize etc. the window all the time!!
However, the setup under linux is not easy with two DIFFERENT screens.
If somebody is interested, just send me an email and I can forward you
the XF86config file for you to study.
- J.-
Gretchen Meinke wrote:
Hi--
I last saw some entries on the Mac Pro Xeon dated ~ April 2007. Were
they purchased? Are you happy with them?
Does ccp4, mosflm, hkl2000, coot run seamlessly on them?
If so, what was the final cost and configuration (we would like stereo).
How much memory should one get?
Assuming Nuvision glasses for stereo, A CRT monitor (either NEC or
Viewsonic)
Based on previous readings, it still looks like the FX4500 is the only
graphics card to support stereo for macs, correct?
Thanks for any and all input.
Gretchen Meinke
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